Rediscovery of Ellobium scheepmakeri (Petit De La Saussaye, 1850) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ellobiidae), a rare ellobiid in Bukit Belimbing mangrove forest, Peninsular Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The ellobiid Ellobium scheepmakeri (Petit de la Saussaye, 1850) is reported from the banks of the Selangor River estuary, 57 years after it was first collected in Peninsular Malaysia. It was found in abundance under logs in the dryland mangrove forest of a dominantly Nypa swamp at the upper reaches of the Kuala Selangor estuary where sediment pore water salinity was recorded at 6–7 ppt.

KEYWORDS:

• Conservation
• ellobiids
• Ellobioidea
• mangroves
• Pulmonata
• South East Asia

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr J. G. M. (Han) Raven for help in identification, confirmation of the species after comparing with his collection. The authors also would like to thank Dr Winston F. Ponder and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and constructive comments on improving the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Mohamad Hanif Ismail http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3807-7017

Rosli Ramli http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0410-9604

Additional information

Funding

This study was supported by a University of Malaya Research Grant (RP004F-13SUS).