Rhaphaulus lorraini L. Pfeiffer, 1856

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	Rhaphaulus lorraini L. Pfeiffer, 1856
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Rhaphaulus lorraini L. Pfeiffer, 1856 View in CoL

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Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, Trail to Western hill, Km 3.6, Plot. 23 ; 5.4203 ° N, 100.2517 ° E; 750 m a. s. l.; 24 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15226 GoogleMaps • same data as for preceding; BOR/MOL 15285 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

This species was described from Penang Hill ( Pfeiffer 1856) but was not recorded by Stoliczka (1872, 1873). It is a widespread species in Malaysia and southern Thailand ( Laidlaw 1928; Pall-Gergely et al. 2014; Jirapatrasilp et al. 2022).

References

Jirapatrasilp P, Sutcharit C, Panha S (2022) Annotated checklist of the operculated land snails from Thailand (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda): the family Pupinidae, with descriptions of several new species and subspecies, and notes on classification of Pupina Vignard, 1829 and Pupinella Gray, 1850 from mainland Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 1119: 1–115. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1119.85400

Laidlaw FF (1928) A list of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the Malay Peninsula with notes. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 6: 25–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41559818

Pall-Gergely B, Hunyadi A, Maassen WJ (2014) Review on Rhaphaulus L. Pfeiffer 1856 and Streptaulus Benson 1857 species with description of Rh. tonkinensis n. sp. from Vietnam (Gastropoda: Pupinidae). Journal of Conchology 41 (5): 565–573. https://conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/jconch/41/5/2014-41504.pdf

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

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 (1872) On the land shells of Penang Island, with descriptions of the animals and anatomical notes; part first, Cyclostomacea. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 41: 261–271. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114229#page/271/mode/1up

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 7. A Pupina aureola Stoliczka, 1872 BOR / MOL 15225 B Rhaphaulus lorraini L. Pfeiffer, 1856 BOR / MOL 15285 C Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) BOR / MOL 15419 D Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834) BOR / MOL 15547 E Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) BOR / MOL 15195 F Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789) BOR / MOL 15545. Scale bars: 5 mm (A – C, D, F); 10 mm (E).

Figure 19. A Cyclophorus malayanus (W. H. Benson, 1852) B Cyclophorus perdix borneensis (Metcalfe, 1854) C Lagocheilus trochoides (Stoliczka, 1872) D Coptocheilus sectilabris (A. Gould, 1844), photo credit Mei Yi Lee E Pupina aureola Stoliczka, 1872 F Rhaphaulus lorraini L. Pfeiffer, 1856.