Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)

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 gracile (Hutton, 1834)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MZU.MOL.22.09 ; individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 19B635C9-85D4-5EC7-B2C5-474C84D48304; Taxon : family: Achatinidae ; genus: Allopeas ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Hutton, 1834); Location : locality: Batu Kudik , Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13365 ; individualCount: 20; occurrenceID: 7D699A5D-067F-5650-A3C0-DB24A587E7CE; Taxon : family: Achatinidae ; genus: Allopeas ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Hutton, 1834); Location : locality: Batu Kudik , Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13900 ; individualCount: 25; occurrenceID: 12B5C88E-AD84-586A-95F2-3AF5C8EBCF05; Taxon : family: Achatinidae ; genus: Allopeas ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Hutton, 1834); Location : locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak

Distribution

Sarawak: Kuching, Serian, Samarahan, Mukah and Miri Divisions ( Marzuki et al. 2021). Sabah: Interior, Kudat, Sandakan, Tawau and West Coast Divisions ( Vermeulen and Liew 2022). Distribution elsewhere: Indonesia: West Kalimantan Provinces and circumtropical ( Hutton 1834; Vermeulen and Whitten 1998; Vermeulen and Liew 2022).

Notes

Widespread through-out Borneo. Living snails were observed amongst the leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. The representative is shown in Fig. 15 . The identification of the species was based on the original description by Hutton (1834) and species description by Marzuki et al. (2021). Syntype, not seen (NHMUK1856.9.15.68).

Figures

Figure 15. Apertural, posterial, umbilical and apical views of Allopeas gracile (MZU. MOL. 22.09). Scale = 5 mm.