Ruthenica Explained

Ruthenica is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.^[1]

Species

Species in the genus Ruthenica include:

• Ruthenica filograna (Rossmässler, 1836)
• Ruthenica gallinae (E. A. Bielz, 1861)

References

• Lindholm, W. A. (1924). A revised systematic list of the genera of the Clausiliidae, recent and fossil, with their subdivisions, synonymy, and types. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 16 (1): 53‑80. London
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ruthenica Lindholm, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996092 on 2020-08-25