Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907

Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak, 2008, Taxonomic Re-Evaluation Of Sarika Diadema (Dall, 1897) And S. Asamurai (Panha, 1997), Two Endemic Land Snails From Thailand (Pulmonata: Ariophantidae: Macrochlamydinae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1), pp. 95-100 : 96

Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907

Type species. – Helix resplendens Philippi, 1846 ; by original designation in Godwin-Austen, 1907: 179.

Diagnosis. – Shell thin, translucent, corneous to light brown, dextral, depressed to slightly convex and rimate. Shell surface smooth, glossy, with very fine growth lines or rarely with radial grooves. Whorls 6–8, increasing regularly, flat to slightly convex. Last whorl well-rounded to slightly shouldered. Aperture crescentic with simple lip. Animal with right and left mantle-lobes, flaps, blackish or grayish (rarely with bright colour). Genitalia with long penial appendage; penial retractor muscle large and attached to head of penial appendage. Spermatophore long with no spine on tail filament. Lateral foot margin, caudal foss and caudal horn present.

Remark. – We have information on only seven species placed in Sarika ( Table 1) but according to Schileyko (2002) some 10 species have been attributed to Sarika with a distribution ranging from southern China to Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.