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    Helicina platychila

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    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
    (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824)[1]
    Synonyms[4]
    • Helix platychilos Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824
    • Helicina lutea Sowerby, 1847[2]
    • Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868[3]

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

    The description of Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868 matches this species, and these names are therefore considered synonyms.[4]

    Shell description[edit]

    As in many helicinid species, the shell of Helicina platychila can be yellow, to red, to brown in colour.[4]

    Distribution[edit]

    This species lives in Guadeloupe, Dominica and in Martinique.[4]

    The type locality is Guadeloupe.[1]

    Ecology[edit]

    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.[4]

    References[edit]

    This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[4]

    1. ^ a b 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. ^ 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.
    3. ^ 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.
    4. ^ a b c d e f 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


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