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Helicina platychila

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Species of gastropod

Helicina platychila
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Helicina
Species: H. platychila
Binomial name
Helicina platychila
(Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824)
Synonyms
  • Helix platychilos Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824
  • Helicina lutea Sowerby, 1847
  • Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868

Helicina platychila is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Helicinidae.

The description of Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868 matches this species, and these names are therefore considered synonyms.

Shell description

As in many helicinid species, the shell of Helicina platychila can be yellow, to red, to brown in colour.

Distribution

This species lives in Guadeloupe, Dominica and in Martinique.

The type locality is Guadeloupe.

Ecology

Helicina platychila is fairly common arboreally on branches and leaf surfaces, and between detritus and leaves on the ground, occasionally together with Helicina guppyi in Dominica.

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.

  1. ^ Megerle von Mühlfeld J. C. von (1824). "Beschreibung einiger neuen Conchylien". Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin 1(4): 205-221, plates 7-9. Helicina platychila is on the page 219, pl. 3 figs 11a-b. Guadeloupe.
  2. Sowerby G. B. (1847). "Monograph of the genus Helicina". Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells 1: 1-16, pls 1-3. Helicina platychila is on the page 6, pl. 2 fig. 59, pl. 3 fig. 142.
  3. Guppy R. J. L. (1868). "On the terrestrial mollusks of Dominica and Grenada, with an account of some new species from Trinidad". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)1: 429-442.
  4. ^ 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
Taxon identifiers
Helicina platychila


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