Bhutan discovered two snail species namely, Erhaia jannei Gittenberger & Stelbrink and Erhaia pelkiae Gittenberger & Gyeltshen.
The news was published by a team of officials from the National Biodiversity Centre, Bhutan (NBC), Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research and the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, the Netherlands in ZooKeys in April 2020.
The species were discovered from brooklet with a prayer wheel along the road in Geneykha, Thimphu in 2018.

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