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Webbhelix

Webbhelix is a genus of North American land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae. The genus contains several taxa which were previously included under the name Triodopsis multilineata.

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Webbhelix
Three views of a shell of Webbhelix multilineata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Tribe: Triodopisini
Genus: Webbhelix
K. C. Emberton, 19881

Webbhelix is a genus of North American land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae. The genus contains several taxa which were previously included under the name Triodopsis multilineata.2

Species

Species within the genus Webbhelix include: species:3

References

References

  1. Emberton, K.C. (1988). "The genitalic, allozymic, and conchological evolution of the eastern North American Triodopsinae (Gastropoda; Pulmonata; Polygyridae)". Malacologia. 28 (1–2): 159–273.
  2. Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 847-851.
  3. [1] Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database