Ratnadvipia
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
Genus:
Ratnadvipia

Godwin-Austen, 1899

Ratnadvipia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. These snails are endemic to highly fragmented rain forests of Sri Lanka. Sometimes they extend into the dry zones of the island and occasionally found around home gardens.[1]

Two species are recognized.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Raheem, Dinarzarde; Naggs, Fred (2006). "The Sri Lankan endemic semi‐slug Ratnadvipia (Limacoidea: Ariophantidae) and a new species from southwestern Sri Lanka". Systematics and Biodiversity. 4: 99–126. doi:10.1017/S1477200005001854.


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