Atopos tourannensis ( Souleyet, 1852 )

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.14976216

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA698A05-17A6-58D9-8728-1C376E2F7279

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scientific name

Atopos tourannensis ( Souleyet, 1852 )
status

 

Atopos tourannensis ( Souleyet, 1852) View in CoL

Figs 18 A View Figure 18 , 22 B View Figure 22

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang-Balik Pulau, Entrance of a durian farm, near Boulder Valley, Old rubber tree, Plot. 17 ; 5.418 ° N, 100.2159 ° E; 180 m a. s. l.; 22 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15227 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

This is a new record for Penang Hill. This species differs from Atopos punctata by having a black mantle with white areas at both ends (head and tail) of the mantle.

Gallery Image

Figure 18. A Atopos tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852) BOR / MOL 15227 B Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902 BOR / MOL 15228 C Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822) BOR / MOL 15773. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Gallery Image

Figure 22. A Pseudoplecta bijuga (Stoliczka, 1873) B Atopos tourannensis (Souleyet, 1852) C Atopos punctata Collinge, 1902 D Laevicaulis alte (A. Férussac, 1822) E Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873), photo credit Xin Wei Ooi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Systellommatophora

SuperFamily

Veronicelloidea

Family

Rathouisiidae

Genus

Atopos