Laoennea renouardi

The white, glossy, transparent shell is compact and less elongated with fewer whorls compared to Laoennea carychioides.

[1] Laoennea renouardi is only known from the Tham Houey Yè cave, which is located within the Vang Vieng karst region in Laos.

[1] The species Laoennea renouardi is named after the French caver, Louis Renouard, who explored and mapped the only two caves in Laos known to harbor this group of tiny snails.

[1] Dr. Adrienne Jochum affiliated with the Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland, the Senckenberg Research Institute and the Natural History Museum of Frankfurt, Germany described the new species and its cave habitat together with Quentin Wackenheim (Laboratoire de Géographie Physique (Meudon, France) and Laboratoire Trajectoires (Nanterre, France)).

It was pointed out that the wear and tear impact associated with tourism and potentially polluted runoff draining in the cave, could pose threats to the species.