Helicina

This article is about the genus of snails. For the suborder of land snails and slugs also known as Helicina, see Helicina (suborder).

Helicina
Helicina platychila
Helicina rhodostoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
List
  • 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

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

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]

  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.