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Meghimatium uniforme

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Taxonomy

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Meghimatium uniforme is an endemic land slug species distributed in the highland of Sabah. It has uniform body-coloured, either white, blue-grey, pale brown or orange-yellow, usually without dark marking. The upper tentacles are dark-coloured. This species can grow up to 30 mm long and up to 8mm wide. It occurs in the primary forest on granodiorite bedrock, at an elevation between 3,100 to 3,600 m (Vermeulen & Liew, 2022). 

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Aileen Tan Shau Hwai (Prof. Dato' Dr.)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
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Aziz Bin Arshad (Prof. Dr.)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
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Liew Thor Seng (Dr.)
Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
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Siti Azizah Mohd Nor (Prof. Dr.)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
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Syaizwan Zahmir Zulkifli (Dr.)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
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PM - Peninsular Malaysia; SBH - Sabah; SWK - Sarawak; SEA - Southeast Asia; W - World;

References
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Book
  1. Liew, T.S. & Foon, J.K. (2022). An Introduction to the Land Snails and Slugs of Malaysia. Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Malaysia. pp. 90. — [ Adobe PDF (PDF) ]
  2. Vermeulen, J.J. & Liew, T.S. (2022). Land snails and slugs of Sabah and Labuan (Malaysia). Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. pp. iii–x, 1–432.
Online
  1. MolluscaBase. Retrieved February 06, 2017, from http://www.molluscabase.org/
Tool Kit
  1. Tan, K.K. & Nurfarhana-Hizan, H. (2022). Some Endemic Species in Malaysia — [ Adobe PDF (PDF) ]

Publications
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Land snails and slugs of Sabah and Labuan (Malaysia) (February 2022)
An Introduction to the Land Snails and Slugs of Malaysia (February 2022)

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Acknowledgements :- Mr. Abdul Razak Mohd Nor Rasid, Mr. Badrul Amin Bin Jaffar, Ms. Nur Farahin Binti Mustafa & Mr. Tan Kok Kiat

Photo credit :- Liew Thor Seng

Species Citation :- Meghimatium uniforme. Malaysia Biodiversity Information System (MyBIS). Accessed via https://www.mybis.gov.my/sp/67883. [Retrieved 09 December 2023].

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