Meghimatium burchi

Meghimatium burchi is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionacea, the roundback slugs.^[1][2][3] The specific name burchi is in honor of the American malacologist John B. Burch.^[1]

Meghimatium burchi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Philomycidae
Genus:	Meghimatium
Species:	M. burchi
Binomial name
Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008[1]

Description

A small species, its body length is around 12 to 16.5 mm.^[1]

Distribution

The distribution of Meghimatium burchi includes Taiwan.^[1][2][3] The type locality is "watershed of Koan-Tau Mt. in Huei-Sun Agriculture Farm, Nantou County", Taiwan. The holotype is deposited at Taichung's National Museum of Natural Science.^[1]