Indoartemon Forcart, 1946

Inkhavilay, Khamla, Siriboon, Thanit, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Rowson, Ben & Panha, Somsak, 2016, The first revision of the carnivorous land snail family Streptaxidae in Laos, with description of three new species (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora, Streptaxidae), ZooKeys 589, pp. 23-53 : 40

Taxon classification Animalia Pulmonata Streptaxidae

Genus Indoartemon Forcart, 1946

Oophana (Indoartemon) Forcart 1946: 215. Benthem Jutting 1954: 95.

Indoartemon - Zilch 1960: 562. Richardson 1988: 223. Schileyko 2000: 776, 777. Siriboon et al. 2014b: 162.

Type species.

Streptaxis eburnea Pfeiffer, 1861, by original designation.

Remarks.

The genus Indoartemon can be recognized by the dentition, which consists of one parietal and one palatal lamella (a basal lamella is also present in some species). The penis is long, with a thin penial sheath extending about half of the penis length, through which the vas deferens does not pass. Penial hooks are present ( Siriboon et al. 2014b).

Currently, ten species are recognized, of which seven were reported from Indochina south of China and Hainan. Only one species, Indoartemon tridens ( Möllendorff, 1898) has previously been recorded from Laos ( Richardson 1988, Schileyko 2000, Siriboon et al. 2014b); here we describe another.