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Kalamantania whiteheadi
Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania.
From the article Kalamantania on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This species was originally discovered and described as Helicarion (?) whiteheadi by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen in 1891. 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).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 706125.