Ruthvenia

<i>Ruthvenia</i>

Ruthvenia

Genus of gastropods

Ruthvenia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.[1] These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka.[2]

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Six species are recognized.[3]

Description

Shell is trochoid to lentiform with compressed structure. Shell color varies from light-comeous to colorless. There are 1 or 2 cord-like keels on last whirl. Aperture narrow with slightly oblique shape. Umbilicus funnel-like and broad.[4]

Species

  • Ruthvenia biciliata (Pfeiffer 1854)
  • Ruthvenia bicincta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912)
  • Ruthvenia caliginosa (Sykes 1898)
  • Ruthvenia clathratula (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
  • Ruthvenia clathratuloides (Gude, 1897)
  • Ruthvenia retifera (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)

References

  1. [1]
    "Taxon details - Ruthvenia Gude, 1911". WoRMS. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Sri Lanka Species Database - CHM Sri Lanka". Clearing House Mechanism. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Ruthvenia species". National History Museum. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  4. [4]
    "A redescription of Ruthvenia biciliata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855), with revised generic diagnosis for Ruthvenia Gude, 1911" (PDF). zobodat. Retrieved 25 February 2019.


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