Helicostyla metaformis
| Helicostyla metaformis | |
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| Shells of Helicostyla metaformis on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Bradybaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicostylinae |
| Genus: | Helicostyla |
| Species: | H. metaformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Helicostyla metaformis (Ferussac, 1821) | |
Helicostyla metaformis is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. [1]
This species can be found in the Philippines. Shells can reach a length of about 55 millimetres (2.2 in).[2]
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