Kalamantania whiteheadi
Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.
Kalamantania whiteheadi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
Superfamily: | Trochomorphoidea |
Family: | Dyakiidae |
Genus: | Kalamantania Laidlaw, 1931[1] |
Species: | K. whiteheadi |
Binomial name | |
Kalamantania whiteheadi (Godwin-Austen, 1891)[2] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Helicarion (?) whiteheadi Godwin-Austen, 1891 |
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
References
- 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.
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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.
- 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