Sabalimax pantherina Tillier & Bouchet, 1988
Tiller & Bouchet (1988) original descriptions on Sabalimax pantherina – “The shell (destroyed for dissection) had three whorls, and exhibited only very faint spiral striae in the apical region and a few faint radial ribs.”
“The radula has ca. 100 teeth per row. Each half row having ten laterals. The central is tricuspid; the laterals have a well-developed ectocone, which is located at the same level as the ectocones of the central, and a very faint endocone which is located closed to the apex of the teeth. The marginals are bicuspid, the ectocone being at most as long as the endocone (the latter seeming to be homologous with the mesocone of the laterals.” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)
“When the animal is alive the foot is dark blue with a yellow dorsal zone; the colour of the visceral mass, which is visible through the shell, is dark brown with yellow specks. The mantle lobes extend largely over the shell. The tail, which is flattened dorso-ventrally and exhibits a median depression, is about three times longer than the head, and is terminated by a short caudal horn. The visceral mass is about 2.7 whorls: the lung occupies the last 0.3 whorls, and the top of the stomach is located 0.8 whorls above. The kidney, of which the proximal region expands laterally, occupies about two-thirds of lung length. The stomachal crop is larger in diameter than the stomachal pouch, which is reduced in size and no typhlosole is visible.” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)
“Central nervous system: It is similar in arrangement to the one described by Tillier (in press, Figs 299-300) in an helicarioninae: the cerebral ganglia and the ganglia of the visceral chain are appressed but distinct; the lateral connectives are very short and the visceral ganglion is located on the right side of the median plane.” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)
“Central nervous systems: the cerebral commissure is short, and the lateral connectives are longer than in Gunongia species. The cerebro-pleural connectives are distinctly shorter than the pleuro-pedal, the right one being itself shorter than the left one. In the visceral chain the left parietal and pleural ganglia are appressed, and separated from the single mass formed by the visceral and right parietal ganglia by a relatively long connective. The right parietal and pleural ganglia are appressed.” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)
“Genital apparatus: the hermaphrodite gland is formed by three lobes. The free oviduct is very short. The spermatheca is hardly longer than the free oviduct, and its top is attached to the spermoviduct by a conjunctive tract. The penial sheath encloses about the basal three-quarters of the penial complex, and the penial retractor is inserted just above its top. Two contiguous appendices are inserted in the basal region of the epiphallus, opposite to the vagina; one is anvil-shaped, and the other is much longer than the epiphallus and hangs out of the sheath. The apical region of the epophallus exhibits internal longitudinal ridges; some ridges of the basal region prolong into the anvil-shaped appendix.” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)
Type locality – “upper montane zone of Mt. Kinabalu (Sabah, Borneo)” (Tiller & Bouchet, 1988)