Helicina orbiculata

Helicina orbiculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Helicina
Species: H. orbiculata
Binomial name
Helicina orbiculata
(Say, 1818)
Synonyms[1]

Helicina orbicula tropica Pfeiffer, 1852

Helicina orbiculata, also known as Helicina (Oligyra) orbiculata and as Oligyra orbiculata, is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.

Distribution

This species lives in northeastern Mexico, Texas, and Florida.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Strenth N. E. & Littleton T. G. (1 February 2000). "A revision of the land snail Helicina orbiculata (gastropoda: prosobranchia) from the southern United States.". The Texas Journal of Science. accessed 3 May 2010

Further reading

  • Ideker J. (1979). The Associated Gastropod Fauna of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge with Notes on a Colony of the Snail, Helicina orbiculata". The Southwestern Naturalist 24(4): 687-689. JSTOR


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