Helicinae

Short description: Subfamily of land snails

Helicinae

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Family:  | Helicidae
Subfamily:  | Helicinae
Rafinesque, 1815
Type genus
Helix

Linnaeus, 1758

Tribes

* Helicini
* Allognathini
* Maculariini
* Thebini

Helicinae is a subfamily of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae. It contains mostly large land snail species, distributed in the western Palaearctic. The most recent (as of 2023) classification proposed division into three tribes.[1][2]

The subfamily contains the largest helicids, and includes widely known, widespread species like the garden snail, grove snail, white garden snail, chocolate-band snail or the Roman snail.[citation needed]

## References

1. ↑ Neiber, Marco T; Korábek, Ondřej; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2022-04-11). "A misinterpreted disjunction: the phylogenetic relationships of the North African land snail Gyrostomella (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4): 1236–1251. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab059. ISSN 0024-4082. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/4/1236/6445973.
2. ↑ "Terrestrial Snails and Slugs". https://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/terrestrial.html?/gastropoda/terrestrial/helix/systematics.html.

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