First record of the land operculate snail Cyclophorus pfeifferi Reeve, 1861 (Mollusca, Cyclophoroidea, Cyclophoridae) from India

By

Sajan, Sheikh
Kumari, Deepti
Jahan, Sonam
Chakrabarty, Arghya
Kushwaha, Sandeep
Sharma, Lalit Kumar
Tripathy, Basudev
Chandra, Kailash

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-6-30

Original Publication

Travaux du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle "Grigore Antipa"

Volume

63

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

51--61

Subjects

Caenogastropoda , Dispersal , Distribution , North-east , range expansion , South Asia

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

București, România Muzeul Național de Istorie Naturală "Grigore Antipa" -2009

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.63.e48523

 

Abstract

Through the present manuscript, we are reporting for the first time the presence of Cyclophorus pfeifferi Reeve, 1861 in India. Previously, this species of land snail was reported only from South-East Asian countries Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The specimens were collected during field sur- veys in Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mizoram state, India. The presence of C. pfeifferi in India reveals the range expansion and long-distance dispersal abilities of the species. Here we discuss the taxonomy, ecology and possible routes of dispersal of the species in India.