Helicina is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.
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| A live individual of Helicina platychila | |
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| A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Helicina Lamarck, 1799[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helicina neritella Lamarck, 1801 | |
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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 edit
Species within the genus Helicina include:
From Central America:
- Helicina amoena L. Pfeiffer, 1849
- Helicina rostrata Morelet, 1849
- Helicina trossula Morelet, 1849
From Costa Rica:[3]
- Helicina boeckeleri Richling, 2001
- Helicina deppeana parvidens Pilsbry, 1920
- Helicina funcki funcki Pfr, 1848
- Helicina funcki costaricensis Wagner, 1905
- Helicina hojarasca Richling, 2001
- Helicna oweniana coccinostoma Morelet, 1849
- Helicina oweniana anozona Martens, 1875
- Helicina pitalensis Wagner, 1911
- Helicina tenuis L.Pfeiffer, 1849
- Helicina tenuis tenuis Pfr., 1848
- Helicina tenuis pittieri Wagner, 1911
- Helicina angulata Sowerby, 1842
- Helicina angulifera Wagner, 1910
- Helicina besckei Pfeiffer, 1848
- Helicina bicincta Gloyne, 1872
- Helicina brasiliensis Gray, 1824
- Helicina caracolla (Moricand, 1836)
- Helicina carinata d’Orbigny, 1835
- Helicina concentrica Pfeiffer, 1848
- Helicina densestriata Wagner, 1910
- Helicina fulva d’Orbigny, 1835
- Helicina guajarana Baker, 1914
- Helicina haematostoma (Moricand, 1839)
- Helicina iguapensis Pilsbry, 1900
- Helicina inaequistriata Pilsbry, 1900
- Helicina juruana Ihering, 1904
- Helicina laterculus Baker, 1914
- Helicina leopoldinae Wagner, 1906
- Helicina leptrotopis Wagner, 1910
- Helicina leucozonalis Ancey, 1892
- Helicina lirifera Ancey, 1892
- Helicina lundi Beck, 1858
- Helicina menkeana Philippi, 1847
- Helicina moreletiana Pfeiffer, 1851
- Helicina oxytropis Gray, 1839
- Helicina pandiensis Wagner, 1905
- Helicina schereri Baker, 1914
- Helicina siolii Haas, 1949
- Helicina sordida King & Broderip, 1832
- Helicina tilei Pfeiffer, 1847
- Helicina variabilis Wagner, 1827
- Helicina wettsteini Wagner, 1906
From the Lesser Antilles:[5]
- Helicina dysoni (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
- Helicina fasciata
- Helicina guppyi
- Helicina nemoralis Guppy, 1866
- Helicina platychila
- Helicina rhodostoma (endemic to Dominica)
From the USA:
From Cuba:
- Helicina aspersa
- Helicina declivis Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1860[6]
- Helicina globulosa d’Orbigny, 1842[6]
- Helicina holguinensis Clench & Aguayo, 1953[6]
- Helicina lembeyana Poey, 1854[6]
- Helicina monteiberia Sarasúa, 1976[6]
- Helicina poeyi Pfeiffer, 1859[6]
- Helicina reeveana Pfeiffer, 1848[6]
- Helicina subdepressa Poey, 1854[6]
- Helicina subglobulosa Poey, 1852[6]
From other locations
- Helicina flammea Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 - Tonga.
- Helicina vitiensis Mousson, 1865 (Fiji Islands)
References edit
- ^ Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. H. N. Paris, 76.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ (in Spanish) Barrientos Z. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 3): 293-304. PDF Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)
- ^ 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 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
External links edit
- 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: 63-91
- 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: 276-284
- Fischer 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 7
- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
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