Hemicycla
Hemicycla | |
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Shell of Hemicycla ethelema | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Helicidae |
Genus: | Hemicycla Swainson, 1840[1] |
Hemicycla is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
Species
Species within the genus Hemicycla include:
- Hemicycla adansoni
- Hemicycla berkeleyi
- Hemicycla eurythyra O. Boettger 1908 - endemic to Tenerife[2]
- Hemicycla inutilis
- Hemicycla mascaensis
- Hemicycla modesta
- Hemicycla plicaria
- Hemicycla pouchet
- Hemicycla saulcyi
References
- ↑ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol. 164: 331.
- ↑ Yanes Y., Martín J., Artiles M., Moro L., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2009). "Rediscovery and redescription of an almost unknown Hemicycla species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae): H. eurythyra O. Boettger 1908 from Tenerife, Canary Islands". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 31-36. abstract.