Rishetia Godwin-Austen, 1920

Budha, Prem B., Naggs, Fred & Backeljau, Thierry, 2017, Conchological differentiation and genital anatomy of Nepalese Glessulinae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Subulinidae), with descriptions of six new species, ZooKeys 675, pp. 129-156 : 133

Rishetia Godwin-Austen, 1920

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.