Helicina platychila

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

Helicina platychila
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
Synonyms[2]
  • Helix platychilos Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824
  • Helicina lutea Sowerby, 1847[3]
  • Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868[4]

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 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. 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. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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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