Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia
Author
Foon, Junn Kitt
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia & Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Author
Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben
Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Department of Biological Sciences, Sunway University, No. 5 Jalan Universiti, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
Author
Liew, Thor-Seng
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia & Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
thorsengliew@gmail.com
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ZooKeys
2017
2017-07-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999
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Opisthostoma trapezium van Benthem Jutting, 1952
Figure 14C
Materials examined.
Prk
47
Kanthan
: BOR/MOL 9071, BOR/MOL 9164. mykarst-027: BOR/MOL 9035, BOR/MOL 9126.
Prk
53
Hill KF
: BOR/
MOL 10780
.mykarst-025: BOR/MOL 9397, BOR/MOL 9421, BOR/MOL 9489, BOR/MOL 9515
.
Distribution.
Restricted to central and upper Kinta Valley only.
Remarks.
Distinguished from congeners by its box-like shell shape, pronounced but widely spaced radial ribs and the direction the aperture is facing is parallel to the coiling axis of the apical whorl. Previously known from Gunung Kanthan only (
Maassen 2001
).