Helicina

Helicina
A live individual of Helicina platychila
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Helicina
Lamarck, 1799[1]

Helicina is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.

This is the type genus of its family (Helicinidae) and subfamily (Helicinae), as well as the superfamily Helicinoidea. This radiation is considered a fairly close relative e.g. of the water-living nerites (Neritidae), among the rather primitive snail clade Neritimorpha to which these all belong.[2]

Selected species

Species within the genus Helicina include:

From Central America:

From Brazil:[3]

From the Lesser Antilles:[4]

From the USA:

From Cuba:

References

  1. Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. H. N. Paris, 76.
  2. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)
  4. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
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