''Helcion'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

true limpet The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is ...

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gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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Patellidae Patellidae is a taxonomic family of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Patelloidea. (The superfamily Patelloidea should not be confused with the similar-sounding genus of true limpets '' Patelloida'' which is in the ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Helcion'' include: Subgenus ''

Ansates ''Patella'' are a herbivorous ''genus'' of sea snails limpets in the family ''Patellidae'', further placed under the class ''Gastropoda''. Primarily a marine based genus of prosobranch gastropods they most commonly live on coastal tidal shores in ...

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'' G.B. Sowerby II x Klein 1839 * '' Helcion pellucidum'' - Blue-rayed limpet : accepted as'' Ansates pellucida'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''

Helcion tella ''Helcion'' is a genus of sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Patellidae. Species Species within the genus ''Helcion'' include: Subgenus ''Ansates'' : accepted as ''Ansates'' G.B. Sowerby II x ...

'' Subgenus ''Helcion'' * ''Helcion pectunculus'' (Gmelin, 1791) Subgenus '' Helcion pectunculus">x ...

Species

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