Kalamantania whiteheadi

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Kalamantania whiteheadi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Dyakiidae
Genus: Kalamantania
Laidlaw, 1931 [1]
Species:
K. whiteheadi
Binomial name
Kalamantania whiteheadi
Synonyms [2]

Helicarion (?) whiteheadi Godwin-Austen, 1891

Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.

Contents

Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania. [3]

Description

This species was originally discovered and described as Helicarion (?) whiteheadi by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen in 1891. [2]

Godwin-Austen's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

Helicarion (?) whiteheadi, n. sp. (Plate v. fig. 1.)

Shell depressedly globose, tumid, slight subangulation on periphery, not perforate; sculpture coarse, a peculiarly wrinkled surface, the lines having a very oblique transverse direction; colour rich umberbrown, pale purple and iridescent within the aperture; spire low, rounded on apex; suture impressed; whorls 3, rapidly increasing, the last much expanded; aperture widely ovate, oblique; peristome thin, not reflected at all on columellar margin, which is subvertical.

Size: maj. diam. 35.0, min. 28.0; alt. axis 12.0; breadth of aperture 20.0 millim.

Hab, Kina Balu Mountain, altitude not known (Mr. J. Whitehead).

Distribution

The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. [2]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Laidlaw F. F. (1931) "On a new sub-family Dyakiinae of the Zonitidae". Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 19: 190-201. page 193. abstract.
  2. 1 2 3 4 PD-icon.svg Godwin-Austen H. H. (1891) "On a collection of Land-shells made In Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new species. Part II. Zonitidae and Helicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1891: 22-47, p. 24.
  3. ↑ Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived 2009-07-22 at the Wayback Machine : 363-369. PDF
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