Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

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

Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MZU.MOL.22.10 ; individualCount: 3; occurrenceID: FB3CED1F-8D21-5413-A53E-0C3C6C5AEA6D; Taxon: family: Achatinidae; genus: Allopeas; scientificNameAuthorship: (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13366 ; individualCount: 23; occurrenceID: D39E9F60-49E2-5C84-87C9-F3FECD06316A; Taxon: family: Achatinidae; genus: Allopeas; scientificNameAuthorship: (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13901 ; individualCount: 5; occurrenceID: 70E85BA3-FF59-52E4-8085-DBF9A21F6691; Taxon: family: Achatinidae; genus: Allopeas; scientificNameAuthorship: (Potiez & Michaud, 1838); Location: locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak

Distribution

Sarawak: Kuching, Serian, Samarahan, Sibu and Miri Divisions ( Marzuki et al. 2021). Sabah: Interior, Sandakan, Tawau, Kudat and West Coast Divisions ( Vermeulen and Liew 2022). Distribution elsewhere: Africa, Asia, Australia and Pacific Islands. ( Potiez and Michaud 1838; Vermeulen and Whitten 1998; Vermeulen and Liew 2022).

Notes

An introduced species. Widespread through-out Borneo. Only dry shells were found during the surveys. The representative is shown in Fig. 16 . The identification of the species was based on the original description by Potiez and Michaud (1838) and species description by Marzuki et al. (2021). Type specimen, not seen.

Figures

Figure 16. Apertural, posterial, umbilical and apical views of Allopeas clavulinum (MZU. MOL. 22.10). Scale = 5 mm.