The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)
Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
Animals
The Helicidae proper of the Philippines are still held in check, as in
the greater part of the Indian region, by the Naninidae. The single
_Trachia_ and _Plectotropis_, and the 2 species each of _Plectopylis_
and _Satsuma_, indicate affinities with Indo-China. Further important
Indian relationships are seen in the great _Nanina_ and _Cyclophorus_,
which here attain almost Indian dimensions; in _Kaliella_ (8 sp.),
_Sitala_ (2), _Clausilia_ (1). Among the operculates we still have
1 _Alycaeus_ and 1 _Coptochilus_. Singularly enough, several Indian
genera which occur here are not found in the intervening islands
of Borneo, Sumatra, or Java, _e.g._ _Streptaxis_, _Hypselostoma_,
_Ditropis_, _Acmella_, and _Cyathopoma_. The curiously tubed Malay
operculates, _Opisthoporus_, etc., fail to reach the Philippines
proper, although occurring in Borneo and N. Celebes; one of them
reaches Palawan. The strikingly Malay genus _Amphidromus_ reaches
Palawan, but no farther (1 sp.), while 2 species reach Mindanao, and
one of these penetrates as far as Bohol and S. Leyte. Amongst the
slugs, _Mariaella_ occurs again only in the Seychelles, and _Tennentia_
only in Ceylon.
[Illustration: FIG. 212.--_Helix_ (_Obbina_) _rota_ Brod.,
Philippines.]
_Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the Philippines_
Streptaxis 1
Ennea 10
Mariaella 3
Tennentia 1
Helicarion 21
Vitrinopsis 5
Vitrinoidea 1
Rhysota 17
Trochonanina 2
Euplecta 28
Hemiplecta 11
Hemitrichia 15
Xesta 2
Macrochlamys 5
Microcystis 3
Lamprocystis 17
Bensonia 4
Vitriniconus 16
Sitala 2
Kaliella 8
Trochomorpha 21
Endodonta 1
Plectopylis 3
Plectotropis 1
Aulacospira 3
Pupisoma 1
Satsuma 2
Dorcasia 2
Chloritis 7
Obbina 19
Papuina 1
Phoenicobius 7
Cochlostyla 247
Amphidromus 2
Hapalus (?) 4
Hypselostoma 1
Pupa 4
Clausilia 1
Subulina 3
Prosopeas 2
Opeas 4
Geostilbia 1
Tornalellina 1
Succinea 3
Vaginula 2
Ancylus 1
Limnaea 3
Planorbis 3
Physa 2
Melania 50
Pirena 2
Bithynia 1
Vivipara 7
Ampullaria 5
Acmella 2
Diplommatina 41
Arinia 6
Pupina 5
Registoma 7
Hargreavesia 1
Callia 2
Pupinella 3
Helicomorpha 4
Coptochilus 1
Alycaeus 1
Leptopoma 42
Lagochilus 11
Cyclophorus 31
Ditropis 7
Cyathopoma 5
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