PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

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TS Liew, JK Foon (2022) An Introduction to the Land Snails and Slugs of Malaysia. Forest Research Institute Malaysia.  104 pp. Download at: https://www.mybis.gov.my/pb/4679 (Open Access)

Thor-Seng Liew, Junn Kitt Foon, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements (2021) Conservation of Limestone Ecosystems of Malaysia:

• Part I, Acknowledgements, Methodology, Overview of limestone outcrops in Malaysia, References, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of the states: Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Terengganu, Selangor, Perlis. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 509 pp. ISBN 978-967-25534-0-3, e-ISBN 978-967-25534-4-1. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907846.v5

• Part II, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Perak. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 470 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-1-0. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907867.v5

• Part III, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Kedah. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 638 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-5-8. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907873.v5

• Part IV, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Pahang. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 642 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-6-5. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907876.v5

• Part V, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Kelantan. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 1050 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-7-2. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907882.v5

• Part VI, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Sarawak. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 572 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-2-7. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907885.v5

• Part VII, Detailed information on limestone outcrops of Labuan and Sabah. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. 490 pp. eISBN 978-967-25534-3-4. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14907888.v5

JOURNAL ARTICLES

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2023) A checklist of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal 75: 133-148. PDF

JK Foon, PT Green,  F Köhler (2023) Delineating Paralaoma annabelli, a minute land snail impacted by the 2019–2020 wildfires in Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 75: 41-61. DOI - PDF

O Decker, JK Foon, F Köhler, A Moussalli, NP Murphy, PT Green (2023) Fire severity is an important driver of land snail declines after the black summer bushfires in Australia. Biological Conservation 279: 109906. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, A Moussalli, F McIntosh, S Laffan, F Köhler (2022) Assessing the immediate impacts of the 2019/2020 bushfires on land snails in north-eastern New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 42: 386-461. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (in press) A checklist of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal.

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2022) First record and description of a new Scabrina species (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Folia Malacologica 30: 23-35. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2022) A new species of Acmella (Gastropoda: Assimineidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Folia Malacologica 30: 10-15. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2020) Two new species of land snails of the genus Rahula from Peninsular Malaysia (Gastropoda: Euconulidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 35: 137-142. PDF

JK Foon, ZY Chang, TS Liew (2018) A contribution to the knowledge of land snails on Balambangan, Banggi and Malawali islands in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah, northern Borneo. Sabah Parks Nature Journal 11: 93-104. PDF

JK Foon, TS Liew (2017) A review of the land snail genus Alycaeus (Gastropoda, Alycaeidae) in Peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 692: 1-81. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, GR Clements, TS Liew (2017) Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 682: 1-94. DOI - PDF

TH Ng, J Dulipat, JK Foon, M Lopes-Lima, A Zieritz, TS Liew (2017) A preliminary checklist of the freshwater snails of Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) deposited in the BORNEENSIS collection, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. ZooKeys 673: 105-123. DOI - PDF

SK Tan, SY Chan, JK Foon (2017) Description of a new Kenyirus species (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) from Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Occasional Molluscan Papers 6: 1-4. PDF

JK Foon (2016) Myxostoma petiverianum tenggolensis (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae), a new subspecies of land snail from Peninsular Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 329-334. PDF

ME Marzuki, JK Foon (2016) A new land snail, Arinia (Notharinia) micro (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Diplommatinidae), from a limestone karst in Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 313-318. PDF

TH Ng, JK Foon, SK Tan, MKK Chan, DCJ Yeo (2016) First non-native establishment of the carnivorous assassin snail, Anentome helena (von dem Busch in Philippi, 1847). BioInvasions Records 5(3): 143-148. DOI - PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan, GR Clements (2015) A New Species of Kenyirus (Pulmonata, Camaenidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 12: 25-34.  PDF

JK Foon (2015) Reassignment of Pterocyclos bathychisma (Möllendorff, 1898) to genus Ptychopoma Möllendorff, 1885 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Cyclophoridae), with comments on the genus Ptychopoma in Indochina. Occasional Molluscan Papers 4: 7-10. PDF

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

JK Foon, I Hyman, F Köhler, J Hunt, M Wilson, A Nance, L King, K Umbers (2023) Identifying non-native predators and predation rates of a Critically Endangered land snail on Norfolk Island. The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Sydney, Australia. PDF

JK Foon, F Köhler, S Laffan (2021) A preliminary assessment of the impacts of 2019-2020 bushfires on land snails in northern New South Wales. Forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW 2021: Out of the ashes: Lessons learned from bushfires and how we can better manage our fauna, Sydney, Australia. PDF

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2020) A checklist of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Batu Caves. Batu Caves Scientific Expedition Symposium 2020, Selayang, Malaysia. PDF

TS Liew, JK Foon, GR Clements (2019) Database and conservation of limestone hills in Malaysia. National Geoscience Conference 2019 (NGC 2019): Geosciences for the Earth Sustainability, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. PDF

AA Sheema, MR Low, GR Clements, J Kelly, JK Foon, T Hughes, JH Epstein, Jayasilan MA (2019) Severe declines in Pteropus spp. sightings throughout peninsular Malaysia – an effect of intense hunting and persecution? 18th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC 2019), Phuket, Thailand. PDF

JK Foon, GR Clements, TS Liew (2019) Strengthening limestone biodiversity conservation in Malaysia through land snail studies and ecosystem mapping. 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2019): Conservation Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Biodiversity with Communities, Governments and Stakeholders, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PDF

JK Foon (2018) Taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Alycaeus and other land snails (Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda) in Peninsular Malaysia, with implications for the conservation of tropical karsts. The 9th Biodiversity Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PDF 

JK Foon, TS Liew, GR Clements (2018) Snails, Cement and Conservation: Bridging the science and management of limestone karst biodiversity in the most extensively quarried landscape in Peninsular Malaysia. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC 2018): Linking Natural History and the Conservation of Tomorrow's Tropical Ecosystems, Kuching, Malaysia. PDF

JK Foon, GR Clements, TS Liew (2017) Recent insights from land snail research in Peninsular Malaysia. The 8th Biodiversity Seminar, Seremban, Malaysia. PDF

JK Foon, GR Clements, TS Liew (2017) Using fine-scale land snail biogeography to improve tropical karst conservation planning in Peninsular Malaysia.  SAGE 2017, The 3rd Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting, Bogor, Indonesia. PDF

TH Ng, SK Tan, A Ahmad, VT Do, JK Foon, RC Joshi, DCJ Yeo (2016) Vanishing before our eyes - Native freshwater apple snails Pila spp. (Ampullariidae) of Southeast Asia. World Congress of Malacology 2016, The 19th International Congress of Unitas Malacologica, Penang, Malaysia. PDF

JK Foon, ME Marzuki, SK Tan, GR Clements, TS Liew (2016) Using phylogenetics and biogeography of Alycaeus snails to inform tropical karst conservation in Malaysia. World Congress of Malacology 2016, The 19th International Congress of Unitas Malacologica, Penang, Malaysia. PDF

POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLES, NEWSLETTERS AND POSTERS

JK Foon (2023) Studying the ecology and genetics of Norfolk Island's unique land snails. Norfolk News 6: 3. PDF

TS Liew, JK Foon, GR Clements, CC Phung, YZ Yong, PK Hoo, MA Mat Said, LP Chong, SM Abdul Kadir (2023) Cementing Relationships for Sustainability: A Collaboration Between Industry and Scientists to Improve Understanding of Land Snail Diversity and Ecology in Malaysia. Tentacle 31: 32-35. PDF

O Decker, JK Foon (2021) Native snails of South-Eastern Australia. La Trobe University. (Pamphlet) PDF 

JK Foon, ME Marzuki (2020) The snail species of Batu Caves limestone hill | Spesies-spesies siput di bukit batu kapur Batu Caves. Batu Caves Scientific Expedition Symposium 2020. (Poster) PDF

GR Clements, JK Foon (2020) The Galapagos Islands on land: How limestone is essential to life. Southeast Asia Globe. [22 May 2020] LINK

SJ Trageser, A Wiscovitch, JK Foon (2018) Discovery of Myxostoma petiverianum Wood, 1828 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Cyclophoridae) on Hòn Cau, Vietnam. The Festivus 50(2): 110-113. PDF

JK Foon, GR Clements, TS Liew (2017) Recent insights from land snail research in Peninsular Malaysia. The 8th Biodiversity Seminar 2017. (Poster) PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan (2016) Kenyirus sheema - a new land snail species discovered in the Belum-Temengor Forest Complex. Malaysian Naturalist 69(3): 35-36. PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan, SY Chan (2014) Another case of human-assisted dispersal of the snail Helicarion perfragilis. Singapore Biodiversity Record 2014: 307-308. PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan (2014) Tree snail Amphidromus atricallosus perakensis on an invasive Acacia tree. Singapore Biodiversity Record 2014: 305-306. PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan, SY Chan (2014) Humans as potential disperser of the arboreal snail Helicarion perfragilis. Singapore Biodiversity Record 2014: 251-252. PDF

JK Foon (2014) Habitat loss and wildlife trade threaten the survival of the montane cloud forest land snail Platymma tweediei in Cameron and Lojing Highlands, Peninsular Malaysia. Tentacle 22: 5-7. PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan, SY Chan, L Nguang, MEY Low (2014) Tree-climbing behavior of the land snail Hemiplecta humphreysiana. Singapore Biodiversity Record 2014: 52-53. PDF

JK Foon, SK Tan, SY Chan (2014) Possible rodent and avian predation of tree snail Amphidromus atricallosus perakensis. Singapore Biodiversity Record 2014: 40-41. PDF

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