Opisthoporus penangensis Stoliczka, 1872

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.14976132

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scientific name

Opisthoporus penangensis Stoliczka, 1872
status

 

Opisthoporus penangensis Stoliczka, 1872 View in CoL

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Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang, Taman Rimba Teluk Bahang, Trail, Simpang 6, Plot. 16 ; 5.4429 ° N, 100.2212 ° E; 120 m a. s. l.; 21 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15275 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

Originally described from base of Penang Hill ( Stoliczka 1872) and recorded in only one plot of this study. This species has also been recorded in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand ( Maassen 2001; Foon et al. 2017).

Gallery Image

Figure 6. A Opisthoporus penangensis Stoliczka, 1872 BOR / MOL 15275 B Diplommatina Penang sp. 1 BOR / MOL 15442 C Diplommatina crosseana Godwin-Austen & Nevill, 1879 BOR / MOL 15543 D Coptocheilus sectilabris (A. Gould, 1844) BOR / MOL 15270. Scale bars: 10 mm (A, D); 0.5 mm (B, C).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

SuperFamily

Cyclophoroidea

Family

Cyclophoridae

Genus

Opisthoporus