Helix goderdziana

Helix goderdziana is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snail.

Helix goderdziana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Helix
Species:
H. goderdziana
Binomial name
Helix goderdziana
Mumladze, Tarkhnishvili & Pokryszko, 2008[1]

This is the largest species in the genus Helix.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Lesser Caucasus in southwestern Georgia[1]

Biotope

This snail lives in humid mountain forests.[1]

References
  1. Mumladze L., Tarkhnishvili D. & Pokryszko B.M. 2008. A new species of the genus Helix from the Lesser Caucasus (sw Georgia). Journal of Conchology, volume: 39, part 5, page 483, published June 2008. abstract


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