Kalamantania whiteheadi
| Kalamantania whiteheadi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Dyakioidea |
| Family: | Dyakiidae |
| Genus: | Kalamantania |
| Species: | K. whiteheadi |
| Binomial name | |
| Kalamantania whiteheadi (Godwin-Austen, 1891)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helicarion (?) whiteheadi Godwin-Austen, 1891 | |
Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.
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:
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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]
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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- ↑ 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