Ariophanta Des Moulins 1829

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

The shell is sinistral or left-handed in its coiling.

A shell of Ariophanta laevipes.

Species

Ariophanta laevipes is the type species of the genus Ariophanta.^[2]

Ariophanta weinkauffiana(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863) (syntype at MNHN, Paris)

Species in the genus Ariophanta include:

• Ariophanta albata (W. T. Blanford, 1880)
• Ariophanta ammonia (Deshayes, 1850)
• Ariophanta basilessa (Benson, 1865)
• Ariophanta basileus (Benson, 1861)
• Ariophanta beddomei (W. T. Blanford, 1874)
• Ariophanta belangeri (Deshayes, 1832)
• Ariophanta bistrialis (H. Beck, 1837)
• Ariophanta bombayana (Grateloup, 1840)
• Ariophanta canarica W. T. Blanford, 1901
• Ariophanta crossei (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Ariophanta cysis (Benson, 1852)
• Ariophanta danae (L. Pfeiffer, 1863)
• Ariophanta gassii W. T. Blanford, 1901
• Ariophanta himalana (I. Lea, 1834)
• Ariophanta immerita (W. T. Blanford, 1870)
• Ariophanta innata Fulton, 1905
• Ariophanta intumescens (W. T. Blanford, 1866)
• Ariophanta kadapaensis (Nevill, 1878)
• Ariophanta laevipes (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Ariophanta laidlayana (Benson, 1856)
• Ariophanta maderaspatana (Gray, 1834)
• Ariophanta prionotropis (Möllendorff, 1898)
• Ariophanta promiscua (E. A. Smith, 1893)
• Ariophanta semirugata (Beck, 1837)
• Ariophanta sisparica (W. T. Blanford, 1866)
• Ariophanta solata (Benson, 1848)
• Ariophanta thyreus (Benson, 1852)
• Ariophanta tongkingensis (Möllendorff, 1902)
• Ariophanta trangensis Thach & F. Huber, 2020

Taxa inquirenda:

• Ariophanta duplocincta Möllendorff, 1897
• Ariophanta huberi Thach, 2018 (debated synonym)
• Ariophanta trifasciata (Chemnitz)

Distribution

This genus is endemic to India.

References

The article incorporates public domain text from the reference.^[2]

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