Helicodonta

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.

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GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderStylommatophora
FamilyHelicodontidae

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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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Instance of: taxon
Image: Helicodonta obvoluta.jpg

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taxon name: Helicodonta
taxon rank: genus
Commons category: Helicodonta

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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.