Sarika sp. 1

Sutcharit, Chirasak, Thach, Phanara, Chhuoy, Samol, Ngor, Peng Bun, Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, Siriwut, Warut, Srisonchai, Ruttapon, Ng, Ting Hui, Pholyotha, Arthit, Jirapatrasilp, Parin & Panha, Somsak, 2020, Annotated checklist of the land snail fauna from southern Cambodia (Mollusca, Gastropoda), ZooKeys 948, pp. 1-46 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.948.51671

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20E7C613-5771-4F32-8F6C-44A7E84AFA68

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E739D1F4-B036-5F9A-9DD1-1A85F87D43A8

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Sarika sp. 1
status

 

Sarika sp. 1 View in CoL Fig. 10D View Figure 10

Material examined.

Locality no. 9: CUMZ-CM032 (12 shells), CUMZ-CM033 (3 shells). Locality no. 10: CUMZ-CM050 (24 shells), CUMZ-CM051 (1 shell; Fig. 10D View Figure 10 ). The empty shells were collected among leaf litter in the limestone area.

Remarks.

The common ground dwelling snail genus Sarika is probably restricted to the Indochina region ( Godwin-Austen 1907). Identifications at species level in Sarika based solely on shells cannot be achieved with confidence because of the limited distinguishing shell characters. Species level distinguishing characters in Sarika are based mainly on their reproductive anatomy.

However, this specimen can be discriminated from S. bocourti (Morelet, 1875) by having a reddish-brown shell with a wide whitish or creamy area surrounding the umbilicus. Sarika bocourti , which is described from "Battambang, Cambodje", has a uniform brownish shell (see Breure et al. (2018: fig. 135) for the syntype).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Heterobranchia

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Ariophantidae