Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, 2021, Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species, ZooKeys 1035, pp. 1-113 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED19022E-A170-4DB7-9587-FEFE15D07854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E1D9B477-7D57-5B0E-95C6-FF3D9340C387

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scientific name

Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
status

 

Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) View in CoL Figures 20D View Figure 20 , 54A View Figure 54

Bulimus achatinaceus L. Pfeiffer, 1846a: 82.

Type locality.

“Java”.

Material examined.

Gunung Kapor: ME 2876, ME 2878, ME 2946, ME 2951, ME 5977, ME 8086, ME 8505, ME 8785, ME 8964. Lobang Angin: ME 8983, ME 9172, ME 9269. Gunung Batu: ME 8823.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching, Serian, Kapit, and Miri divisions. Labuan, Sabah: Sandakan and West Coast divisions. Kalimantan: West Kalimantan Province. Distribution elsewhere. South to East Asia, South-east Asia, Pacific Islands ( Naggs 1994; Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. Widespread throughout Borneo.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Achatinidae

Genus

Paropeas