Bradybaena similaris ( Ferussac , 1821)

Foon, Junn Kitt, Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben & Liew, Thor-Seng, 2017, Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia, ZooKeys 682, pp. 1-94 : 3

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scientific name	Bradybaena similaris ( Ferussac , 1821)
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Materials examined.

mykarst-025: BOR/MOL 9376. Prk 64 Bt Kepala Gajah: BOR/ MOL 10090 View Materials . Prk 34 G. Tasek: BOR/ MOL 11003 View Materials .

Distribution.

Widespread in Peninsular Malaysia ( Maassen 2001). Native to East and Southeast Asia but now pantropical ( de Winter et al. 2009).

Remarks.

Medium-sized shell. Globular shell. Spire height low to medium. Umbilicus present. Periphery reflected when mature. Shell white to brown, occasionally with dark brown peripheral band. This is a synanthropic species.

References

de Winter, AJ, Cremers, HJWN, Soes, DM, 2009. The Asian tramp snail Bradybaena similaris in a tropical greenhouse in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Basteria 73: 61 - 64

Maassen, WJM, 2001. A preliminary checklist of the non-marine molluscs of West Malaysia. De Kreukel (extra edition 2001), 2001: 1-155.

Figures

Figure 21. A Bradybaena similaris (Ferussac, 1821) BOR / MOL 9376. Perak, Ipoh, Mykarst- 025 Plot 1 B Amphidromus atricallosus perakensis (Fulton, 1901) BOR / MOL 8285. Perak, Ipoh, outcrop 500 m C Chloritis breviseta (Pfeiffer, 1862) BOR / MOL 9091. Perak, Ipoh, Gunung Kanthan Plot 2 D Chloritis penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) BOR / MOL 11562. Perak, Ipoh, Gunung Pondok, plot 6 E Trachia wrayi (de Morgan, 1885 b) BOR / MOL 9381. Perak, Ipoh, Mykarst- 025 Plot 1.