''Helicina'' is a
genus
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of
tropical
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and subtropical
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s with an
operculum,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
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 ...
s.
This is the type genus of its family (
Helicinidae
Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails, terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.
Name
These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, despite a superficial simila ...
) and subfamily (
Helicinae
Helicinae is a subfamily of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae. It contains mostly large land snail species, distributed in the western Palaearctic. The most recent (as of 2023) classification proposed division into three tribes.
The ...
), as well as the superfamily
Helicinoidea
Helicinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of land snails that have an operculum. In other words, they are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks. They are in the order Cycloneritida and are quite closely related to the marine and freshwater ...
. This radiation is considered a fairly close relative e.g. of the water-living
nerites (Neritidae), among the rather primitive snail clade
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a clade of gastropod molluscs that contains around 2,000 extant species of sea snails, limpets, freshwater snails, land snails and slugs. This clade used to be known as the superorder Neritopsina.
Etymology
The clade’s name, N ...
to which these all belong.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Helicina'':
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Helicina acobambensis''
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Helicina adspersa''
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Helicina amoena''
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Helicina ampliata''
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Helicina anaguana''
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Helicina angulata''
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Helicina antillarum''
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Helicina arenicola''
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Helicina basifilaris''
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Helicina bautistae''
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Helicina beatrix''
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Helicina besckei''
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Helicina biangulata''
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Helicina bicincta''
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Helicina bicolor''
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Helicina bocourti''
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Helicina boettgeri''
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Helicina borealis''
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Helicina bourguignatiana''
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Helicina brasiliensis''
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Helicina cacaguelita''
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Helicina caracolla
''Helicina'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.
This is the type genus of its family (Helicinidae) and subfamily (Helicinae), as well ...
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Helicina carinata''
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Helicina chionea''
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Helicina chiquitica''
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Helicina chrysocheila''
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Helicina cinctella''
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Helicina cingulata''
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Helicina clappi''
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Helicina cokevillensis''
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Helicina colombiae''
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Helicina columbiana''
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Helicina concentrica''
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Helicina contamanoensis''
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Helicina conus''
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Helicina convexa''
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Helicina cordillerae''
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Helicina cretacea''
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Helicina crosbyi''
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Helicina cucutensis''
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Helicina dallasi''
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Helicina declivis''
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Helicina decorosa''
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Helicina delicatula''
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Helicina densestriata''
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Helicina diaphana''
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Helicina dominicensis''
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Helicina duo''
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Helicina durangoana''
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Helicina dysoni''
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Helicina echandiensis''
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Helicina ecuadoriana''
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Helicina elata''
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Helicina elatior''
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Helicina escondida''
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Helicina evanstonensis''
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Helicina fasciata''
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Helicina faustini''
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Helicina festiva''
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Helicina flavida''
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Helicina foveata''
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Helicina fragilis''
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Helicina fulva''
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Helicina funcki''
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Helicina gabbi''
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Helicina gemma''
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Helicina ghiesbreghti''
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Helicina grayi''
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Helicina guajarana''
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Helicina guppyi''
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Helicina haemastoma''
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Helicina heighwayana''
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Helicina hondurana''
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Helicina hornbeckii''
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Helicina huacapistana''
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Helicina iguapensis''
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Helicina inaequistriata''
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Helicina inca''
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Helicina invectita''
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Helicina iris''
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Helicina isthmica''
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Helicina juruana''
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Helicina keatei''
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Helicina lacerata''
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Helicina laterculus''
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Helicina laus''
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Helicina lembeyana''
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Helicina leopoldinae''
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Helicina leptotropis''
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Helicina leucozonalis''
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Helicina liobasis''
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Helicina lirifera''
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Helicina lundi''
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Helicina marfisae''
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Helicina merdigera''
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Helicina monteiberia''
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Helicina monteverdensis''
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Helicina munda''
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Helicina nemoralis''
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Helicina neritella''
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Helicina nesiotica''
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Helicina notata''
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Helicina oaxacana''
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Helicina ocanensis''
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Helicina ochsneri''
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Helicina orbiculata''
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Helicina oskari''
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Helicina oweniana''
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Helicina oxyrhyncha''
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Helicina pandiensis''
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Helicina paraensis''
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Helicina peruviana''
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Helicina phakos''
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Helicina phasianella''
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Helicina pitalensis''
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Helicina platychila
''Helicina platychila'' is a species of tropical land snail with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Helicinidae.
The description of ''Helicina epistilia'' Guppy, 1868 matches th ...
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Helicina prasinata''
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Helicina psorica''
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Helicina ptychophora''
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Helicina pucayaensis''
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Helicina punctisulcata''
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Helicina pygmaea''
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Helicina raresulcata''
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Helicina rawsoni''
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Helicina rhips''
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Helicina rhodostoma''
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Helicina rhynchostoma''
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Helicina riparia''
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Helicina rostrata
''Helicina rostrata'' is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Helicinidae.
This is an endangered species.
Distribution
This land snail is found in Guatemala and Nicaragua
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Helicina rotundata''
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Helicina sanctaemarthae''
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Helicina sanguinea''
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Helicina schereri''
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Helicina schlueteri''
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Helicina serina''
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Helicina shantungensis''
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Helicina sinuosa''
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Helicina siolii''
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Helicina sordida''
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Helicina sowerbyana''
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Helicina sprucei''
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Helicina steindachneri''
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Helicina striata''
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Helicina subglobulosa''
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Helicina succincta''
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Helicina syngenes''
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Helicina talamancensis''
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Helicina tamsiana''
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Helicina tenuis''
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Helicina terryae''
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Helicina tilei''
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Helicina transparens''
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Helicina trossula''
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Helicina turbinata''
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Helicina umbonata''
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Helicina unizonata''
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Helicina vanattae''
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Helicina variabilis''
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Helicina viridis''
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Helicina vokesi''
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Helicina wettsteini''
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Helicina weyrauchi''
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Helicina zephyrina''
References
External links
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91Montfort P. [Denys de (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808">enys de">Montfort P. [Denys de
(1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808 Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 ]
Say T. (1818). Account of two new genera, and several new species, of fresh water and land snails. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1: 276-284Fischer P. & Crosse H. (1870-1902). Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala. Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques, Partie 7Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
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