Paropeas tchehelense (de Morgan, 1885)

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

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scientific name	Paropeas tchehelense (de Morgan, 1885)
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Paropeas tchehelense (de Morgan, 1885) View in CoL

Fig. 8 B View Figure 8

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Research trail, Plot. 01; 5.4248 ° N, 100.2669 ° E; 720 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh leg.; BOR / MOL 15162 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Habitat nature trail, Plot. 08; 5.4223 ° N, 100.2648 ° E; 760 m a. s. l.; 6 Sept. 2022; J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR / MOL 15097 GoogleMaps .

Remark.

New record from Penang Hill. This species is also recorded from the mainland of Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand ( Maassen 2001; Foon et al. 2017).

References

Foon JK, Clements GR, Liew TS (2017) Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 682: 1–94. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999

Maassen WJM (2001) A preliminary checklist of the non-marine molluscs of West Malaysia. De Kreukel (extra edition 2001) 2001: 1–155.

Pfeiffer L (1856) Descriptions of twenty-five new species of land-shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London 24 (302): 32; 24 (303): 33 - 36. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860555

Stoliczka F (1873) On the land shells of Penang Island, with descriptions of the animals and anatomical notes; part second, Helicacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 42: 11-38. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35546163#page/25/mode/1up

Figures

Figure 8. A Oospira penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) BOR / MOL 15243 B Prosopeas tchehelense (de Morgan, 1885) BOR / MOL 15162 C Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) BOR / MOL 15736 D Microcystina Penang sp. 1 BOR / MOL 15754. Scale bars: 10 mm (A – C); 0.5 mm (D).