Rhachistia bengalensis ( Lamarck, 1822 )

Sajan, Sheikh, Barik, Subhadra, Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Tripathy, Basudev, Mukhopadhyay, Amit, Hafiz, Md & Ghosh, Abhijna, 2024, Notes on a mollusc collection from Gundichaghagi Falls, Eastern Ghats, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 124 (1), pp. 55-63 : 59

Rhachistia bengalensis ( Lamarck, 1822) ( Figure 18 )

1822. Bulimus bengalensis Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. Sans. Vert. , 6 (2): p. 124.

Distribution: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal, Odisha (New Record) ( Ramakrishna et al., 2010).

Note: Live specimens were observed during night survey crawling on the trunk of Terminalia arjuna above two to three meters from the ground.

Figures

Figures 12-20. Terrestrial gastropods, (12) Cyclophorus polynema (L. Pfeiffer, 1854), (13) Pterocyclos rupestris Benson, 1832, (14) Ariophanta interrupta (Benson, 1834), (15) Ariophanta laidlayana (Benson, 1856), (16) Cryptozona semirugata (H.H. Beck, 1837), (17) Macrochlamys indica Godwin-Austen, 1883, (18) Rhachistia bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822, (19) Rhachistia praetermissa (W. T. Blanford & H. F. Blanford, 1861), (20) Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)