Biology:Kalamantania
Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania.[1]
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). |
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Distribution
The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.[2]
References
- ↑ 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) : 363-369. PDF
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
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