Helix ceratina

Helix ceratina, the Corsican snail,[1] is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.[3]

Helix ceratina
Shell of Helix ceratina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Helix
Species:
H. ceratina
Binomial name
Helix ceratina
Synonyms
  • Helix tristis Pfeiffer, 1845
  • Tyrrhenaria ceratina (Shuttleworth, 1843) (chresonym)

This species is endemic to Corsica.

References

  1. Falkner, M.; Falkner, G.; von Proschwitz, T. & Charrier, M. (2011). "Helix ceratina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T9843A13020602. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T9843A13020602.en. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  2. (in German) Shuttleworth R. J. 1843. Über die Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken von Corsica. Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern 1843 (2/3): 9-21.
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Helix ceratina Shuttleworth, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1549519 on 2022-12-09
  • Fiorentino, V., Manganelli, G., Giusti, F. & Ketmaier, V. (2016). Recent expansion and relic survival: Phylogeography of the land snail genus Helix (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from south to north Europe. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98: 358-372.
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