title: Ruthvenia
text: # 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)
  