Ariophanta

Ariophanta
Ariophanta interrupta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Subfamily: Ariophantinae
Genus: Ariophanta

Ariophanta is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. The shell is sinistral or left-handed in its coiling.

This is a monotypic genus.

A shell of Ariophanta laevipes.

Species

Ariophanta laevipes is the type species of the genus Ariophanta.[1]

Species in the genus Ariophanta include:

Distribution

This genus is endemic to India.

References

The article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]

  1. 1 2 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.

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