Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834)

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.14976148

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scientific name

Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834)
status

 

Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834) View in CoL

Fig. 7 D View Figure 7

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Research trail, Plot. 06 ; 5.4247 ° N, 100.2674 ° E; 750 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh, M. Y. Lee, M. Y. Wua leg.; BOR/MOL 15414 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang- Balik Pulau, Lam durian farm, Plot. 13 ; 5.4198 ° N, 100.2259 ° E; 290 m a. s. l.; 21 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15546 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang- Balik Pulau, Tropical fruit farm, Plot. 14 ; 5.4148 ° N, 100.2187 ° E; 260 m a. s. l.; 21 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15547 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang- Balik Pulau, Tropical fruit farm, Plot. 15 ; 5.4160 ° N, 100.2200 ° E; 250 m a. s. l.; 21 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15548 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang- Balik Pulau, Lam durian farm, Plot. 19 ; 5.4218 ° N, 100.2263 ° E; 280 m a. s. l.; 23 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15284 GoogleMaps Penang Hill, Botanical garden, Plot. 29 ; 5.4400 ° N, 100.2866 ° E; 75 m a. s. l.; 2 Feb. 2023; T. S. Liew, M. Y. Lee, A. Yusni leg.; BOR/MOL 15749 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

More common in disturbed habitats on Penang Hill. It is possibly an introduced species and is widespread in Malaysia ( Foon et al. 2017).

Gallery Image

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Achatinoidea

Family

Achatinidae

Genus

Allopeas