Kaliella micula (Mousson, 1857)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, 2021, Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species, ZooKeys 1035, pp. 1-113 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED19022E-A170-4DB7-9587-FEFE15D07854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/549A03A1-1168-5D79-A700-02108FE18BBD

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scientific name

Kaliella micula (Mousson, 1857)
status

 

Kaliella micula (Mousson, 1857) Figure 33B View Figure 33

Zonites micula Mousson, 1857: 158.

Type locality.

"Insula Balie" [= Bali Island, Indonesia].

Material examined.

Gunung Kapor: ME 9650.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Distribution elsewhere. Peninsular Malaysia to Lesser Sunda, Indonesia ( Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

Remarks.

Only dry shells were found during the surveys. It differs from K. scandens by having a larger shell with wider whorls that rapidly increase in size. For further details on the differences between this species and K. dendrobates (Tillier & Bouchet, 1989), see Vermeulen et al. (2015: 105).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Chronidae

Genus

Kaliella