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

Helicina
Helicina platychila
Helicina rhodostoma
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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
Synonyms
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  • Caloplisma Crosse & P. Fischer, 1893
  • Cinctella A. J. Wagner, 1910
  • Concentrica A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina (Analcadia) A. J. Wagner, 1907
  • Helicina (Gemma) A. J. Wagner, 1907
  • Helicina (Helicina) Lamarck, 1799
  • Helicina (Oligyra) Say, 1818
  • Helicina (Oxyrhombus) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1893
  • Helicina (Pseudoligyra) H. B. Baker, 1954
  • Helicina (Retorquata) A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina (Succincta) A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina (Tristramia) Crosse, 1863
  • Helicina (Trochatella) Swainson, 1840
  • Oligyra Say, 1818
  • Olygyra Say, 1818
  • Orbiculata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Pachytoma Swainson, 1840
  • Pitonellus [lapsus]
  • Pitonnillus Montfort, 1810
  • Punctisalcata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Retorquata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Rostrata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Trochatella Swainson, 1840
  • Turbinata A. J. Wagner, 1905

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]

Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Helicina:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. H. N. Paris, 76.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Helicina Lamarck, 1799". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
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