Ariophanta
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| Ariophanta interrupta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Ariophantidae |
| Genus: | Ariophanta Des Moulins, 1829 |
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Ariophanta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae. [1]
The shell is sinistral or left-handed in its coiling.
A shell of Ariophanta laevipes.
Species[]
Ariophanta laevipes is the type species of the genus Ariophanta.[2]
Ariophanta weinkauffiana(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863) (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Species in the genus Ariophanta include:
- (W. T. Blanford, 1880)
- (Deshayes, 1850)
- (Benson, 1865)
- (Benson, 1861)
- (W. T. Blanford, 1874)
- (Deshayes, 1832)
- (H. Beck, 1837)
- (Grateloup, 1840)
- W. T. Blanford, 1901
- (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
- (Benson, 1852)
- (L. Pfeiffer, 1863)
- W. T. Blanford, 1901
- (I. Lea, 1834)
- (W. T. Blanford, 1870)
- Fulton, 1905
- (W. T. Blanford, 1866)
- (Nevill, 1878)
- Ariophanta laevipes (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- (Benson, 1856)
- (Gray, 1834)
- (Möllendorff, 1898)
- (E. A. Smith, 1893)
- (Beck, 1837)
- (W. T. Blanford, 1866)
- (Benson, 1848)
- (Benson, 1852)
- (Möllendorff, 1902)
- Thach & F. Huber, 2020
- Taxa inquirenda:
- Ariophanta duplocincta Möllendorff, 1897
- Ariophanta huberi Thach, 2018 (debated synonym)
- Ariophanta trifasciata (Chemnitz)
Distribution[]
This genus is endemic to India.
References[]
The article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ariophanta Des Moulins, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995732 on 2021-06-13
- ^ a b Blanford W. T. & Godwin-Austen H. H. 1908. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae. Taylor & Francis, London, 311 pp., page 25–30.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
Further reading[]
- Studies on the Reproductive Tract of Ariophanta maderaspatana (Gray) (Mollusca: Pulmonata)[permanent dead link]
External links[]
- Jousseaume F. (1894). Mollusques recueillis à Ceylan par M. E. Simon, et révision générale des espèces terrestres et fluvio-lacustres de cette ile. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 7: 264-330
- Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
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