Videna timorensis (Martens, 1867)

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

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

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scientific name

Videna timorensis (Martens, 1867)
status

 

Videna timorensis (Martens, 1867) Figures 43D View Figure 43 , 52A View Figure 52

Trochomorpha timorensis Martens, 1867: 248-249, pl. 13, fig. 6.

Type locality.

"Timor, im Innern bei Okabiti, in Waldern" [= near Okabiti, Timor Island].

Material examined.

Gunung Doya: ME 1228, ME 9163, ME 9193, ME 9405. Gunung Kapor: ME 1179, ME 1222, ME 1226, ME 3360, ME 5976, ME 8090, ME 8458, ME 8762, ME 8972. Kampung Padang Pan: ME 6724. Lobang Angin: ME 8984, ME 9404. Gunung Batu: ME 1224, ME 8824.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Sabah: Tawau Division. Distribution elsewhere. Peninsular Malaysia to Indo-Australian archipelago (Maassen 2001).

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging on wet rotten wood surfaces at the base of the limestone cliff. It differs from V. bicolor (Martens, 1864) by having a pale brown smaller shell with narrower umbilicus and shell surface striated with conspicuous spiral grooves.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Trochomorphidae

Genus

Videna

Loc

Videna timorensis (Martens, 1867)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan 2021
2021
Loc

Trochomorpha timorensis

von Martens 1867
1867