Kalamantania whiteheadi explained

Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.

Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania.^[1]

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:

Distribution

The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.

See also

• Biological classification

Notes and References

1. 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) : 363-369. PDF