| Helicodiscus parallelus | |
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| A drawing of a live specimen of Helicodiscus parallelus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Helicodiscidae |
| Genus: | Helicodiscus |
| Subgenus: | Helicodiscus |
| Species: | H. parallelus |
| Binomial name | |
| Helicodiscus parallelus (Say, 1821)[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Helicodiscus lineatus |
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Helicodiscus parallelus, common name the compound coil, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.
Helicodiscus parallelus is the type species of the genus Helicodiscus.
This species occurs in the following countries and islands: