Kalamantania

Kalamantania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Dyakiidae
Genus:	Kalamantania Laidlaw, 1931
Species:	K. whiteheadi
Binomial name
Kalamantania whiteheadi (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
Synonyms
Helicarion (?) whiteheadi Godwin-Austen, 1891

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.

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).

Distribution

The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.

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