The land area of Laos is composed of a large variety of undisturbed habitats, such as high
mountainous areas, huge limestone karsts and the lower Mekong Basin. Therefore, Laos is …

This chapter deals with the diversity of terrestrial cave invertebrates from the viewpoint of its
contribution to global diversity and of the variety of morphological traits and life forms …

Abstract William Henry Benson (1803–1870) made extensive collections of Mollusca,
particularly land snails, from South Africa, Mauritius, and especially from the Indian …

The arctic environment continues to undergo a rapid transformation due to climatic shifts,
human activities, and invasive species. Revealing ecosystem responses to these stressors …

 Abstract The Southeast Asian genus Angustopila, currently comprising 13 nominal species,
encompasses the world's tiniest land snails. This work shows that there are far more species …

The Asian land snail species Bensonella plicidens (Benson, 1849) is enigmatic due to its
extremely disjunct distribution. That is, it has been reported from the Himalaya, in Eastern …

Indochina land snails of the family Ariophantidae are in need of thorough systematic
revision. Here we comprehensively revise the systematics of the large-shelled, sinistral …

So far there has been no consensus regarding the definition of the land snail family
Orculidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Orthurethra). Here, we present the outcome of a …

Examination of the holotype and newly collected specimens of Clostophis sankeyi Benson,
1860 (the only species of Clostophis Benson, 1860) from Myanmar revealed that it does not …

This research describes a newly discovered cave-dwelling microsnail, Angustopila
pallgergelyi, from Sa Kaeo Province, eastern Thailand. The new species' conchology is …