Helicopsis

Helicopsis
Drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of a shell of Helicopsis striata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Helicopsis
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Type species
Helix striata
O. F. Müller, 1774
Diversity[2]
about 9 species
Synonyms
  • Costatella M. Kimakowicz, 1890
  • Helicella (Striatella) Westerlund, 1876 (junior objective synonym)
  • Helicopsis (Helicopsis) Fitzinger, 1833· accepted, alternate representation
  • Heliocopsis Fitzinger, 1833 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Martha A. J. Wagner, 1914 (junior synonym)
  • Striatella Westerlund, 1876
  • Striatinella Clessin, 1876

Helicopsis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ (in German) Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien. page 101.
  2. ^ a b Balashov, Igor; Neiber, Marco; Hausdorf, Bernhard (December 2020). "Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe-inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis in Eastern Europe". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 1108–1125. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa156.
  3. ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25485783.
  4. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Helicopsis Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934023 on 2022-07-31