Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902

Goh, Soo-Mun, Jasrul, Dulipat, Lee, Mei-Yi, Vermeulen, Jaap J. & Liew, Thor-Seng, 2025, From 153 - year-old records to contemporary discoveries: land snail (Mollusca, Gastropoda) diversity in Penang Hill, Malaysia, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 99-154 : 99-154

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.136906

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0FBF41B0-1D35-4A31-9653-B1F475FBDF80

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976218

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scientific name

Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902
status

 

Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902 View in CoL

Figs 18 B View Figure 18 , 22 C View Figure 22

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, Trail from Viaduct to Claremont, after shelter, Plot. 27 ; 5.4205 ° N, 100.2724 ° E; 500 m a. s. l.; 26 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15228 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

This species was also previously recorded by Stoliczka (1873). It differs from Atopos tourannensis by having a brown mantle.

Gallery Image

Figure 18. A Atopos tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852) BOR / MOL 15227 B Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902 BOR / MOL 15228 C Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822) BOR / MOL 15773. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Gallery Image

Figure 22. A Pseudoplecta bijuga (Stoliczka, 1873) B Atopos tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852) C Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902 D Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822) E Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873), photo credit Xin Wei Ooi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Systellommatophora

SuperFamily

Veronicelloidea

Family

Rathouisiidae

Genus

Atopos