The three new species belong to Streptaxidae, a near pan-tropical family of carnivorous land snails.
Members of this family are found in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, from South America, Africa through India to Japan and Asia.
They hunt various soil invertebrates, and are considered to play a major role in limestone ecosystems.
The new genus, named Carinartemis, currently comprises two new species,Carinartemis vesperus and Carinartemis striatus.
The generic name, Carinartemis, is derived from the Latin ‘carina’ (keel) and Greek ‘artemis’ (goddess of the chase).
Carinartemis vesperus has suboblique-heliciform, white and translucent shell (up to 10 mm long).
“Whorls 7, spire conical with distinct suture. Shell surface glossy, with thin and fine transverse ridges,” Dr Panha and his colleagues wrote in a paper published in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (full paper in .pdf).
“Teeth arranged in anteriorly V-shaped rows, each row containing 47–49 teeth with the formula (23-24)-1-(23-24); central tooth small, short, triangular with pointed cusp.”read more
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