Biology:Plectostoma sciaphilum

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Plectostoma sciaphilum
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Plectostoma
Species:
P. sciaphilum
Binomial name
Plectostoma sciaphilum
(van Benthem-Jutting, 1952)

Plectostoma sciaphilum is an extinct species of land snail in the family Diplommatinidae. This species was originally found on a single limestone karst at Bukit Panching (3°53'28"N, 103°8'26"E), in Peninsular Malaysia. In 2007, this karst was quarried, thus destroying the only known site of occurrence for this species.[2] Plectostoma species are allopatric, being in found in dozens of isolated karst hills where few species occur, meaning that limited gene flow exists and only negligible hybridization occurs. Shell is distinctly convex, tuba shape similar to that of Plectostoma senex and P. turriforme, but this species lacks basal constriction teeth. Shell height: 2.6–2.9 mm, width: 1.5–1.6 mm.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q20721434 entry