Ruthvenia
Genus of gastropods
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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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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Genus: | Ruthvenia Gude, 1911 |
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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)