Helix lutescens

Helix lutescens
Four shells of Helix lutescens
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Helix
Species: H. lutescens
Binomial name
Helix lutescens
Linnaeus, 1758

Helix lutescens is species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

This species of snail creates and uses calcareous love darts.

Distribution

Its native distribution is pericarpathian.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 2 April 2007.
  2. ↑ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. - VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. ↑ Helix lutescens - Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
  4. ↑ pl:Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce
  5. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology. 41(1): 91-109.


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