Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.
| Kalamantania whiteheadi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
| Superfamily: | Trochomorphoidea |
| Family: | Dyakiidae |
| Genus: | Kalamantania Laidlaw, 1931[2] |
| Species: | K. whiteheadi
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| Binomial name | |
| Kalamantania whiteheadi (Godwin-Austen, 1891)[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Helicarion (?) whiteheadi Godwin-Austen, 1891 | |
Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania.[3]
Description
editThis species was originally discovered and described as Helicarion (?) whiteheadi by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen in 1891.[1]
Godwin-Austen's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Helicarion (?) whiteheadi, n. sp. (Plate v. fig. 1.)
Shell depressedly globose, tumid, slight subangulation on periphery, not perforate; sculpture coarse, a peculiarly wrinkled surface, the lines having a very oblique transverse direction; colour rich umberbrown, pale purple and iridescent within the aperture; spire low, rounded on apex; suture impressed; whorls 3, rapidly increasing, the last much expanded; aperture widely ovate, oblique; peristome thin, not reflected at all on columellar margin, which is subvertical.
Size: maj. diam. 35.0, min. 28.0; alt. axis 12.0; breadth of aperture 20.0 millim.
Hab, Kina Balu Mountain, altitude not known (Mr. J. Whitehead).
Distribution
editThe type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d
Godwin-Austen H. H. (1891) "On a collection of Land-shells made In Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new species. Part II. Zonitidae and Helicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1891: 22-47, p. 24.
- ^ Laidlaw F. F. (1931) "On a new sub-family Dyakiinae of the Zonitidae". Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 19: 190-201. page 193. abstract.
- ^ Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived 2009-07-22 at the Wayback Machine: 363-369. PDF
