Sarika (gastropod) explained

Sarika is a large genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Macrochlamydinae of the family Ariophantidae.^[1]

Species

• Sarika benoiti (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
• Sarika birmana (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Sarika bocourti (Morelet, 1875)
• Sarika caligina Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika concavata Pholyotha, Sutcharit, Tongkerd, Lin & Panha, 2020
• Sarika consepta (Benson, 1860)
• Sarika costabilis A. Pholyotha, 2022
• Sarika costata A. Pholyotha, 2022
• Sarika despecta (Mabille, 1887)
• Sarika dohrniana (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
• Sarika dugasti (Morlet, 1891)
• Sarika gratesi Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika hainesi (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Sarika heptagyra (Möllendorff, 1902)
• Sarika inferospira Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika kawtaoensis Tomlin, 1929
• Sarika khmeriana Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika lactoconcha Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika lactospira Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika limbata (Möllendorff, 1894)
• Sarika lopa Pholyotha, Sutcharit, Tongkerd, Lin & Panha, 2020
• Sarika megalogyne Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika melanospira Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika nana Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika obesior (Martens, 1867)
• Sarika ochtogyra (Möllendorff, 1902)
• Sarika pellosa Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika planata Laidlaw, 1933
• Sarika pumicata (Morelet, 1875)
• Sarika resplendens (Philippi, 1847)
• Sarika rex (Preston, 1909)
• Sarika siamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Sarika solemi Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika subcornea (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
• Sarika subheptagyra Pholyotha & Panha, 2020
• Sarika theodori (Philippi, 1847)

Synonyms:

• Sarika asamurai (Panha, 1997): synonym of Taphrenalla asamurai (Panha, 1997) (superseded combination)
• Sarika diadema (Dall, 1897): synonym of Taphrenalla diadema (Dall, 1897) (superseded combination)
• Sarika hainesii (L. Pfeiffer, 1856): synonym of Sarika hainesi (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) (incorrect subsequent spelling)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
• Pholyotha, A., Sutcharit, C., Tongkerd, P. & Panha, S. (2020). Integrative taxonomic revision of the land snail genus Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907 in Thailand, with descriptions of nine new species (Eupulmonata, Ariophantidae). ZooKeys. 976: 1–100

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995758 on 2022-05-04