Charopa lafargei Vermeulen & Marzuki, 2014

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0AE82225-C67E-4D90-8BBE-C30124E6C312

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C6DBAEE3-10F3-AA67-33D8-E6948944A917

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scientific name

Charopa lafargei Vermeulen & Marzuki, 2014
status

 

Charopa lafargei Vermeulen & Marzuki, 2014 Figure 22B View Figure 22

Materials examined.

mykarst-184 Bat Cave : BOR/MOL 9854, BOR/MOL 9863, BOR/MOL 9778, BOR/MOL 9811. mykarst-027: BOR/MOL 9033, BOR/MOL 9124. Prk 47 Kanthan : BOR/MOL 9147. mykarst-185 Batu Kebelah : BOR/MOL 9529, BOR/MOL 9589. Prk 64 Bt Kepala Gajah: BOR/ MOL 10179 View Materials .

Distribution.

Known from upper Kinta Valley only.

Remarks.

Small shell. Spire tall. Periphery rounded, almost keeled. Radial ribs pronounced, spaced out and equidistant from each other. Spiral ridges distinct but not as pronounced as radial ribs. This species was previously presumed endemic to Gunung Kanthan ( Vermeulen and Marzuki 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Charopidae

Genus

Charopa