Annotated catalogue of the types of Indo-Burmese non-marine Gastropoda deposited in the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand

ABSTRACT

Four decades after its publication, Rolf A.M. Brandt’s 1974 monograph on the non-marine molluscs of Thailand remains the main authority on freshwater and estuarine species for Southeast Asia and includes up to 165 new species of snails and bivalves described by Brandt and colleagues in the same book and preceding publications. All the holotypes are lodged at the Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Germany, and are largely inaccessible to Thai and other Southeast Asian researchers, who rely heavily on the Brandt collection as a key reference. Paratypes were, however, donated to various other collections, including some in Thailand. We present the first catalogue of 45 paratypes of gastropods of the Brandt collection, described from Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, which are lodged at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand.

KEYWORDS:

• Taxonomy
• museum collection
• freshwater
• snails
• Thailand
• Laos
• Cambodia

Acknowledgements

We thank Chirasak Sutcharit, Sow-Yan Chan, Siong Kiat Tan and Ronald Janssen for providing references and comments; Ngor Peng Bun and Khamla Inkhavilay for double-checking localities in Lao. We are grateful for constructive comments from Don Colgan and Frank Köhler, which greatly improved the manuscript. We would like to acknowledge the Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University for funding to maintain the collection and the Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University for providing a fellowship to the first author.

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ORCID

Ting Hui Ng http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-0039

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Funding

This work was supported by Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and Chulalongkorn University [Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund].