Rishetia Godwin-Austen, 1920
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Rishetia Godwin-Austen, 1920 |
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Ranibania Schileyko and Kuznetsov, 1996, Ruthenica 5: 158-160 (type species: Achatina tenuispira Benson, 1836).
Distribution.
India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal ( Godwin-Austen 1920, Schileyko 1999, Raheem et al. 2014, Budha et al. 2015).
Types species.
Rishetia longispira Godwin-Austen, 1920.
Main characteristics.
Shell slender, elongately turreted, generally more than 2.5 × higher than wide, columella truncated, transluscent, shell sculpture in general stronger than in Glessula . Vagina generally longer than penis. The proximal part of the male reproductive organs with a simple flagellum, either like a knob or tubular sac, epiphallic caecum generally present.
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