Georissa mawsmaiensis
- A micro snail species named Georissa mawsmaiensis has recently been discovered from Mawsmai, a limestone cave in Meghalaya, 170 years after the last such discovery was made.
- It was in 1851 that Georissa saritta, a member of the same genus as the latest find, was collected and described from the Musmai valley (Mawsmai today) near Cherrapunjee.
- The members of the Georissa genus are widely distributed across and reported from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
- They are confined to microhabitats consisting of limestone caves or karst landscapes formed by the dissolution of limestone.
- Mawsmai cave is situated in the small village of ....
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