Videna castra (Benson, 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.14976208

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scientific name

Videna castra (Benson, 1852)
status

 

Videna castra (Benson, 1852)

Fig. 17 C View Figure 17

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 15279 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

This species was also previously recorded by Stoliczka (1873). It is similar to Videna cantoriana but has more regularly expanded whorls. This species is also recorded from mainland Peninsular Malaysia, India, and Thailand ( Maassen 2001; Foon et al. 2017).

Gallery Image

Figure 17. A Quantula striata (J. E. Gray, 1834) BOR / MOL 15732 B Pseudoplecta bijuga (Stoliczka, 1873) BOR / MOL 15734 C Videna castra (Benson, 1852) BOR / MOL 15279 D Videna timorensis (E. von Martens, 1867) BOR / MOL 15129. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Trochomorphoidea

Family

Trochomorphidae

Genus

Videna