Philalanka kusana (Aldrich, 1889)

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.14976188

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B954EFA5-2453-580E-B836-3ADE22C9B077

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scientific name

Philalanka kusana (Aldrich, 1889)
status

 

Philalanka kusana (Aldrich, 1889) View in CoL

Fig. 13 C View Figure 13

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, By Path H, Plot. 33 ; 5.4210 ° N, 100.2701 ° E; 610 m a. s. l.; 4 Feb. 2023; T. S. Liew, A. Yusni leg.; BOR/MOL 15760 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

This is a new record for Penang Hill. This species differs from the other two Philalanka species by having no more than two spiral ribs on the penultimate whorls.

Gallery Image

Figure 13. A Philalanka carinifera (Stoliczka, 1873) BOR / MOL 15436 B Philalanka Penang sp. 2 BOR / MOL 15539 C Philalanka kusana (Aldrich, 1889) BOR / MOL 15760 D Paralaoma sp. BOR / MOL 15481. Scale bars: 1 mm (A); 0.5 mm (B – D).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Punctoidea

Family

Charopidae

Genus

Philalanka