Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)

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

Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) Figure 19B

Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822: pl. 13, fig. 3.

Type locality.

“L’ile de France" [= Mauritius].

Material examined.

Gunung Doya: ME 8920, ME 9228. Gunung Kapor: ME 8507, ME 9016, ME 9241.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching, Samarahan, Serian, Sibu, Mukah and Miri divisions. Sabah: Kudat, West Coast, Interior, Sandakan and Tawau divisions. Kalimantan. Distribution elsewhere. Circumtropical ( Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in lowland limestone forest. The species was firstly introduced into Sarawak in 1928 as poultry food and became pest a year later ( Jarrett 1931). Apparently widespread throughout Borneo.

Figures

Figure 19. A Elasmias sundanum (Moellendorff, 1897) ME 8982 Lobang Angin B Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) ME 9241 Gunung Kapor.