Georissa pyrrhoderma Thompson & Dance, 1983

Lee, Jie Ying, Nasir, Nurul Syafiqah, Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi, Vermeulen, Jaap J. & Khalik, Mohd Zacaery, 2024, The land snail fauna of Batu Kudik, isolated limestone outcrop near Simunjan, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 115556-115556 : 115556

Georissa pyrrhoderma Thompson & Dance, 1983

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MZU.MOL.22.08 ; individualCount: 987; occurrenceID: 699683AF-EE08-5CAD-8523-63D16C81639C; Taxon: family: Hydrocenidae; genus: Georissa; scientificNameAuthorship: Thompson & Dance, 1983; Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13354 ; individualCount: 1050; occurrenceID: 597B12A2-1DFC-50A8-A418-63EDFAA91D95; Taxon: family: Hydrocenidae; genus: Georissa; scientificNameAuthorship: Thompson & Dance, 1983; Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13889 ; individualCount: 1033; occurrenceID: 70EA2F8C-D1B0-52A3-8596-7158FFE37797; Taxon: family: Hydrocenidae; genus: Georissa; scientificNameAuthorship: Thompson & Dance, 1983; Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak

Distribution

Sarawak: Serian and Samarahan Divisions ( Thompson and Dance 1983; Khalik et al. 2018). Endemic to western Sarawak.

Notes

Living snails were observed on the wet limestone wall surfaces covered with mosses and lichens. This marked the second locality record of this species after the type locality. The representative is shown in Fig. 14 . The identification of the species was based on the original description by Thompson and Dance (1983), species description by Beron (2015) and Khalik et al. (2018). Paratype, not seen (NHMUK1984005).

Figures

Figure 14. Apertural, posterial, umbilical and apical views of Georissa pyrrhoderma (ME 13354). Scale = 1 mm.