Kalamantania whiteheadi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae.
Kalamantania whiteheadi is the only species in the genus Kalamantania.Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) : 363-369. PDF
Description This species was originally discovered and described as Helicarion (?) whiteheadi by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen in 1891.
Godwin-Austen's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Distribution The type locality is Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.
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