Helicina platychila
| Helicina platychila | |
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| Helicina platychila | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Helicina |
| Species: | H. platychila |
| Binomial name | |
| Helicina platychila (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Helicina platychila is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.
The description of Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868 matches this species, and these names are therefore considered synonyms.[2]
Shell description
As in many helicinid species, the shell of Helicina platychila can be yellow, to red, to brown in colour.[2]
Distribution
This species is lives in Guadeloupe, Dominica and in Martinique.[2]
The type locality is Guadeloupe.[1]
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.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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