Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Dyakioidea Scientific name Kalamantania whiteheadi Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Family Dyakiidae Higher classification Kalamantania | |
Genus Kalamantania
Laidlaw, 1931 | ||
Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.
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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:
Distribution
The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.
References
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