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Helicodonta
Sign in to saveHelicodonta, common name the "cheese snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae.
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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Helicodonta, and connects out to Mollusca, Animalia and cheese.
It is catalogued under the topic Helicodontidae.
Vinony links it to 3 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyHelicodontidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 91
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Helicodontidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UMMZ, ALMNH, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Switzerland, France, Morocco, Madagascar, Romania, Germany, Mexico, Laos
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Encyclopedic overview
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Helicodonta, common name the "cheese snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae.
The common name is based on the shape of the shell, which is reminiscent of a wheel of cheese.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helicodonta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.