Macrochlamys sainctjohni (Godwin-Austen, 1891)

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

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scientific name

Macrochlamys sainctjohni (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
status

 

Macrochlamys sainctjohni (Godwin-Austen, 1891) Figure 22D View Figure 22

Microcystina st. johni Godwin-Austen, 1891: 38, pl. 4, figs 3, 3A.

Type locality.

"Busan Hills, Borneo".

Material examined.

Gunung Sebayat: ME 8011. Gunung Doya: ME 3053, ME 9111, ME 9184. Gunung Kapor: ME 3850, ME 8509, ME 9208, ME 9240, ME 9900. Gunung Batu: ME 2837.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Distribution elsewhere. Palawan ( Smith 1895).

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. It differs from other Bornean Macrochlamys species by having a small reddish brown shell with well-spaced fine spiral grooves.