Vespericola columbiana, common name the northwest hesperian, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.
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| Three views of a shell of Vespericola columbiana from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Vespericola |
| Species: | V. columbiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Vespericola columbiana (I. Lea, 1838)
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Subspecies
edit- Vespericola columbiana depressa (Pilsbry & Henderson, 1936)
- Vespericola columbiana latilabrum Pilsbry, 1940
References
edit- ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 13a.