Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

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

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scientific name

Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
status

 

Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) View in CoL Figure 20A View Figure 20

Bulimus clavulinus Potiez & Michaud, 1838: 136.

Type locality.

“L’ile Bourbon" [=La Réunion].

Material examined.

Gunung Sebayat: ME 8013. Gunung Doya: ME 2905, ME 9704, ME 8928, ME 8948, ME 9036. Gunung Kapor: ME 0753, ME 2877, ME 2948, ME 8506, ME 9043, ME 9229, ME 9248. Lobang Angin: ME 9105, ME 9276. Gunung Batu: ME 2835, ME 2841, ME 2870, ME 8821.

Distribution in Borneo.

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

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. Introduced species. Widespread throughout Borneo.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Achatinidae

Genus

Allopeas