Oospira penangensis ( Stoliczka, 1873 )

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.14976158

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/79CE6989-3838-526A-80D9-02FCE267FF71

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scientific name

Oospira penangensis ( Stoliczka, 1873 )
status

 

Oospira penangensis ( Stoliczka, 1873) View in CoL

Figs 8 A View Figure 8 , 20 B View Figure 20

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, Air Itam, Forest near Dam, Plot. 24 ; 5.3904 ° N, 100.2612 ° E; 380 m a. s. l.; 24 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15223 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Air Itam, Forest near Dam, Plot. 25 ; 5.3900 ° N, 100.2575 ° E; 290 m a. s. l.; 25 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15224 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Trail - Moniot Road East, Plot. 28 ; 5.4240 ° N, 100.2746 ° E; 530 m a. s. l.; 26 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15243 GoogleMaps .

Remark.

This species was described and recorded by Stoliczka (1873) from Penang Hill, and it can also be found in Perak ( Maassen 2001).

Gallery Image

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).

Gallery Image

Figure 20. A Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) B Oospira penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) C Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) D Parmarion martensi Simroth, 1893 E Tanychlamys indica (Godwin Austen, 1883) F Tanychlamys Penang sp. 1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Clausilioidea

Family

Clausiliidae

Genus

Oospira