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] | |
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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
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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