Hemiplecta distincta (Pfeiffer, 1850)

Sutcharit, Chirasak, Thach, Phanara, Chhuoy, Samol, Ngor, Peng Bun, Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, Siriwut, Warut, Srisonchai, Ruttapon, Ng, Ting Hui, Pholyotha, Arthit, Jirapatrasilp, Parin & Panha, Somsak, 2020, Annotated checklist of the land snail fauna from southern Cambodia (Mollusca, Gastropoda), ZooKeys 948, pp. 1-46 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.948.51671

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20E7C613-5771-4F32-8F6C-44A7E84AFA68

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hemiplecta distincta (Pfeiffer, 1850)
status

 

Hemiplecta distincta (Pfeiffer, 1850) Figs 4E View Figure 4 , 10C View Figure 10

Helix distincta Pfeiffer, 1850: 69, 70. Type locality: insulis Moluccis [Molucca Islands].

Hemiplecta distincta : Inkhavilay et al. 2019: 76, figs 35b, c, 56c.

Material examined.

Locality no. 7: CUMZ-CM021 (6 shells), CUMZ-CM022 (1 specimen in ethanol), CUMZ-CM023 (1 specimen in ethanol). Locality no. 11: CUMZ-CM069 (2 shells), CUMZ-CM070 (1 specimen in ethanol; Fig. 4E View Figure 4 ). Locality no. 12: CUMZ-CM115 (1 shell). Locality no. 3: CUMZ-CM123 (1 specimen in ethanol). Locality no. 17: CUMZ-CM136 (4 shells). Locality no. 18: CUMZ-CM145 (1 shell). Locality no. 14: CUMZ-CM149 (1 shell). Locality no. 16: CUMZ-CM171 (1 shell; Fig. 10C View Figure 10 ), CUMZ-CM172 (1 specimen in ethanol). Locality no. 6: CUMZ-CM180 (3 specimens in ethanol). The small juveniles were found on tree trunks and leaves, while the adults were found to live on the ground among leaf litter.

Distribution.

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam ( Schileyko 2011, Inkhavilay et al. 2019).

Remarks.

This is one of the largest land snail species recorded from Indochina. Hemiplecta distincta has a wide distribution from Southern Vietnam, throughout Cambodia, northeastern Thailand, and throughout Laos ( Schileyko 2011, Inkhavilay et al. 2019). The snails are widely used as local food and are gathered for personal consumption or sold in high quantities, especially in Northeastern Thailand and Laos ( Panha 1987). This species is an intermediate host of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Cambodia ( Brumpt et al. 1968).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Ariophantidae

Genus

Hemiplecta

Loc

Hemiplecta distincta (Pfeiffer, 1850)

Sutcharit, Chirasak, Thach, Phanara, Chhuoy, Samol, Ngor, Peng Bun, Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, Siriwut, Warut, Srisonchai, Ruttapon, Ng, Ting Hui, Pholyotha, Arthit, Jirapatrasilp, Parin & Panha, Somsak 2020
2020
Loc

Helix distincta

L. Pfeiffer 1850
1850