New snail species found

By PATRICK LEE

IPOH: A new species of snail has been discovered in Perak and named after the cement company quarrying the hill it was found on.

Found by two Malaysians in 2011, Charopa lafargei is only 1.4mm tall and takes its name after Lafarge, which is currently mining the limestone hill Gunung Kanthan.

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