Ruthvenia
# Ruthvenia

Ruthvenia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae. These snails are restricted to South India and Sri Lanka.

Six species are recognized.

## Description

Shell is trochoid to lentiform with compressed structure. Shell color varies from light-comeous to colorless. There are 1 or 2 cord-like keels on last whirl. Aperture narrow with slightly oblique shape. Umbilicus funnel-like and broad.

## Species

* Ruthvenia biciliata (Pfeiffer 1854)
* Ruthvenia bicincta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912)
* Ruthvenia caliginosa (Sykes 1898)
* Ruthvenia clathratula (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
* Ruthvenia clathratuloides (Gude, 1897)
* Ruthvenia retifera (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
