Helicostyla
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Helicostyla is a genus
of small, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae
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Helicostyla is the type genus
of the subfamily Helicostylinae.
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small, air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae
Bradybaenidae
Bradybaenidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea....
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Helicostyla is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the subfamily Helicostylinae.
Species
Species within the genus Helicostyla include: They are all found in the PhilippinesPhilippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
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- Helicostyla aegle (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla annulata (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla balteata (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla bembicodes (Pfeiffer, 1851)
- Helicostyla bicolorata (Lea, 1840)
- Helicostyla bullala (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla bustoi (Hidalgo, 1887)
- Helicostyla butleri (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Helicostyla calamianica (Quadras Moellendorff, 1894)
- Helicostyla camelopardalis (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla canonizadoi (Bartsch, 1932)
- Helicostyla carinata (Lea, 1840)
- Helicostyla cincinna (Sowerby, 1840)
- Helicostyla cincinniformis (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla collodes (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla concinna (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla curta (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla dactylus (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla daphnis (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla denticulata (Jay, 1839)
- Helicostyla diana (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla dimera (Jonas, 1846)
- Helicostyla dubiosa (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Helicostyla effusa (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Helicostyla euconica (Bartsch, 1932)
- Helicostyla evanescens (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla faunus (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla fenestrata (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla florida (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla fulgens (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla fulgetrum (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla gilva (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Helicostyla grandis (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Helicostyla halichlora (Semper, 1866)
- Helicostyla hydrophana Sowerby, 1841
- Helicostyla ignobilis Sowerby, 1841
- Helicostyla iloconensis (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla imperator (Pfeiffer, 1848)
- Helicostyla jonasi (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Helicostyla juglans (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Helicostyla lacerata (Semper, 1877)
- Helicostyla leopardus (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Helicostyla leucophaea (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla lignaria (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Helicostyla macrostoma (Pfeiffer, 1843)
- Helicostyla marinduquensis (Hidalgo, 1887)
- Helicostyla mateoi (Bartsch, 1932)
- Helicostyla mearni Bartsch, 1905
- Helicostyla metaformis (Ferussac, 1821)
- Helicostyla mirabilis (Ferussac, 1821)
- Helicostyla montana Semper, 1891
- Helicostyla monticula (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla nimbosa (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla opalina (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla orbitula (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla phaeostyla (Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Helicostyla pictor (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla pithogaster (Ferussac, 1821)
- Helicostyla polillensis (Pfeiffer, 1861)
- Helicostyla pudibunda Semper, 1891
- Helicostyla rufogaster (Lesson, 1831)
- Helicostyla sarcinosa (Ferussac, 1821)
- Helicostyla satyrus (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla simplex (Jonas, 1843)
- Helicostyla smaragdina (Reeve, 1842)
- Helicostyla solivaga (Reeve, 1849)
- Helicostyla sphaerica (Sowerby, 1841)
- Helicostyla ticaonica (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla turbinoides (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla turbo (Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Helicostyla velata (Broderip, 1841)
- Helicostyla ventricosa (Bruguière, 1792)
- Helicostyla viridostriata (Lea, 1840)
- Helicostyla woodiana (Lea, 1840)
- Helicostyla worcesteri Bartsch, 1909