Helicina
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This article is about the genus of snails. For the suborder of land snails and slugs also known as Helicina, see Helicina (suborder).
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 | |
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma | |
Scientific 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 | |
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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]