Helicina

Helicina is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.

This article is about the genus of snails. For the suborder of land snails and slugs also known as Helicina, see Helicina (suborder).

Helicina
A live individual of Helicina platychila
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Helicina
Lamarck, 1799[1]
Type species
Helicina neritella Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms
  • Caloplisma Crosse & P. Fischer, 1893
  • Cinctella A. J. Wagner, 1910
  • Concentrica A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina (Analcadia) A. J. Wagner, 1907· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Gemma) A. J. Wagner, 1907· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Helicina) Lamarck, 1799· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Oligyra) Say, 1818· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Oxyrhombus) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1893· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Pseudoligyra) H. B. Baker, 1954· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Retorquata) A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina (Succincta) A. J. Wagner, 1905· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Tristramia) Crosse, 1863· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicina (Trochatella) Swainson, 1840
  • Oligyra Say, 1818 (original rank)
  • Olygyra Say, 1818 (unused original spelling)
  • Orbiculata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Pachytoma Swainson, 1840
  • Pitonellus (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Pitonnillus Montfort, 1810 (objective synonym)
  • Punctisalcata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Retorquata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Rostrata A. J. Wagner, 1905
  • Trochatella Swainson, 1840 (Invalid: junior homonym of Trochatella Lesson, 1831)
  • Turbinata A. J. Wagner, 1905

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.[2]

Selected species

Species within the genus Helicina include:

From Central America:

  • Helicina amoena L. Pfeiffer, 1849
  • Helicina rostrata Morelet, 1849
  • Helicina trossula Morelet, 1849

From Costa Rica:[3]

  • Helicina boeckeleri Richling, 2001
  • Helicina deppeana parvidens Pilsbry, 1920
  • Helicina funcki funcki Pfr, 1848
  • Helicina funcki costaricensis Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina hojarasca Richling, 2001
  • Helicna oweniana coccinostoma Morelet, 1849
  • Helicina oweniana anozona Martens, 1875
  • Helicina pitalensis Wagner, 1911
  • Helicina tenuis tenuis Pfr., 1848
  • Helicina tenuis pittieri Wagner, 1911

From Brazil:[4]

  • Helicina angulata Sowerby, 1842
  • Helicina angulifera Wagner, 1910
  • Helicina besckei Pfeiffer, 1848
  • Helicina bicincta Gloyne, 1872
  • Helicina brasiliensis Gray, 1824
  • Helicina caracolla Moricand, 1836
  • Helicina carinata d’Orbigny, 1835
  • Helicina concentrica Pfeiffer, 1848
  • Helicina densestriata Wagner, 1910
  • Helicina fulva d’Orbigny, 1835
  • Helicina guajarana Baker, 1914
  • Helicina haematostoma Moricand, 1839
  • Helicina iguapensis Pilsbry, 1900
  • Helicina inaequistriata Pilsbry, 1900
  • Helicina juruana Ihering, 1904
  • Helicina laterculus Baker, 1914
  • Helicina leopoldinae Wagner, 1906
  • Helicina leptrotopis Wagner, 1910
  • Helicina leucozonalis Ancey, 1892
  • Helicina lirifera Ancey, 1892
  • Helicina lundi Beck, 1858
  • Helicina menkeana Philippi, 1847
  • Helicina moreletiana Pfeiffer, 1851
  • Helicina oxytropis Gray, 1839
  • Helicina pandiensis Wagner, 1905
  • Helicina schereri Baker, 1914
  • Helicina siolii Haas, 1949
  • Helicina sordida King & Broderip, 1832
  • Helicina tilei Pfeiffer, 1847
  • Helicina variabilis Wagner, 1827
  • Helicina wettsteini Wagner, 1906

From the Lesser Antilles:[5]

From the USA:

From Cuba:

  • Helicina aspersa
  • Helicina declivis Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1860[6]
  • Helicina globulosa d’Orbigny, 1842[6]
  • Helicina holguinensis Clench & Aguayo, 1953[6]
  • Helicina lembeyana Poey, 1854[6]
  • Helicina monteiberia Sarasúa, 1976[6]
  • Helicina poeyi Pfeiffer, 1859[6]
  • Helicina reeveana Pfeiffer, 1848[6]
  • Helicina subdepressa Poey, 1854[6]
  • Helicina subglobulosa Poey, 1852[6]

From other locations

  • Helicina flammea Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 - Tonga.
  • Helicina vitiensis Mousson, 1865 (Fiji Islands)

References
  1. Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. H. N. Paris, 76.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. (in Spanish) Barrientos Z. (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 3): 293-304. PDF Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)
  5. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
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