Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Genus Helicostoa
Lamy, 1926 Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Rissooidea Scientific name Helicostoa sinensis | |
Family Helicostoidae
Pruvot-Fol, 1937 Similar Paludomidae, Glacidorbidae, Amnicolidae, Pomatiopsidae, Cochliopidae | ||
Helicostoa sinensis is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the clade Littorinimorpha.
Helicostoa sinensis is the only species in the genus Helicostoa, which in turn is the only genus in the family Helicostoidae. According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Helicostoidae has no subfamilies.
Helicostoa sinensis is tentatively placed within superfamily Rissooidea. Previously it was in the superfamily Vermetoidea.
Helicostoa sinensis is only found in China, more specifically in the Yangtze River.
This freshwater snail lives attached or bonded to blocks of limestone.
References
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