Helicodiscus hexodon

Helicodiscus hexodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Helicodiscus
Species: H. hexodon
Binomial name
Helicodiscus hexodon
Hubricht, 1966

Helicodiscus hexodon, common name the "toothy coil snail", is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.

Distribution

This species is found only in the United States.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Helicodiscus hexodon. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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