Plectostoma obliquedentatum
Appearance
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A number of live Plectostoma obliquedentatum. | |
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Plectostoma obliquedentatum (Vermeulen, 1994)[2]
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Opisthostoma obliquedentatum Vermeulen, 1994 |
Plectostoma obliquedentatum is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.
Distribution
It is site-endemic to Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.[3]
References
- ^ IUCN (2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 January 2016.
- ^ Vermeulen J. J. (1994). "Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo. 6. The genus Opisthostoma (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Diplommatinidae), part 2." Basteria 58(3-4): 75–191, page 107.
- ^ Clements R., Sodhi N. S., Schilthuizen M. & Ng P. K. L. (2006). "Limestone Karsts of Southeast Asia: Imperiled Arks of Biodiversity". BioScience 56(9): 733-742. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[733:LKOSAI2.0.CO;2].
External links
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- Webster N. B., Van Dooren T. J. & Schilthuizen M. (2012). "Phylogenetic reconstruction and shell evolution of the Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(3): 625-638. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.004.