Rank Genus | Scientific name Helicina | |
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Similar Helicinidae, Pandanaceae, Drymaeus, Lucidella, Alcadia | ||
Sea butterfly animation limacina helicina
Helicina is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.
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- Sea butterfly animation limacina helicina
- Helicina orbiculata globular drop snail torments daedalochila auriculata ocala liptooth snail
- Selected species
- References
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.
Helicina orbiculata globular drop snail torments daedalochila auriculata ocala liptooth snail
Selected species
Species within the genus Helicina include:
From Central America:
From Brazil:
From the Lesser Antilles:
From the USA:
From Cuba:
References
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