Sarika benoiti ( Crosse & Fischer, 1863 )

Pholyotha, Arthit, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Thach, Phanara, Chhuoy, Samol, Ngor, Peng Bun & Panha, Somsak, 2020, Land snail genus Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907 (Eupulmonata: Ariophantidae) from Cambodia, with description of three new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 674 (674), pp. 1-21 : 7

Sarika benoiti ( Crosse & Fischer, 1863)

Table 1

Zonites benoiti Crosse & Fischer, 1863: 346 , pl. 14, fig. 4. Type locality: in loco Fuyen-Moth dicto, Cochinchine (Phu Yen Province, Vietnam).

Helix benoiti – Pfeiffer 1868: 99. — Morelet 1875: 248.

Nanina (Macrochlamys) benoiti – Tryon 1886: 90, pl. 30, figs 57–58. — Fischer & Dautzenberg 1904: 394.

Ariophanta ( Macrochlamys ?) benoiti – Fischer 1891: 20.

Macrochlamys benoiti – Ancey 1898: 128, pl. 9, fig. b. — Saurin 1953: 113. — Fischer 1973: 92. — Schileyko 2011: 30–31.

Sarika benoiti – Inkhavilay et al. 2019: 81 , fig. 38c.

Diagnosis

Shell sub-depressed, medium-sized (shell width 16.0 mm, shell height 9.0 mm), rather thin, semitranslucent and brownish. Shell surface smooth and glossy; more glossy below the periphery; suture impressed; spire slightly elevated; apex rather obtuse. Entire shell consisting of 6 whorls and increasing regularly. Last whorl rounded on the periphery.Aperture obliquely oval-lunate shaped; peristome simple. Umbilicus narrowly opened and deep.

Remarks

Sarika benoiti can be found in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia ( Ancey 1898; Fischer & Dautzenberg 1904; Saurin 1953; Fischer 1973; Schileyko 2011; Inkhavilay et al. 2019). In Cambodia, it had been listed among the land snail fauna by Fischer (1891, 1973) and Fischer & Dautzenberg (1904), but with no description or illustration. No examples of this species were found in our survey but, in keeping with earlier records, we provisionally retain this species in the Cambodian land snail fauna.