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Helix Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 153970

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Pulmonata (Infraclass) > Stylommatophora (Order) > Sigmurethra (Suborder) > Helicoidea (Superfamily) > Helicidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Parent Helicidae Rafinesque, 1815
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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Species Helix amarula Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix auricularia Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix corallina Chemnitz, 1795 accepted as Scalenostoma subulatum (Broderip, 1832)
Species Helix coriacea Pallas, 1788 accepted as Velutina coriacea (Pallas, 1788)
Species Helix corvus Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Corvusiana corvus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Helix cyclostomoides Pfeiffer, 1840 accepted as Vitrinella cyclostomoides (Pfeiffer, 1840)
Species Helix decussata Montagu, 1803 accepted as Rissoina decussata (Montagu, 1803)
Species Helix eburnea Mühlfeld, 1824 accepted as Melanella eburnea (Mühlfeld, 1824)
Species Helix flavocincta Mühlfeld, 1829 accepted as Eulima glabra (da Costa, 1778)
Species Helix haliotoidea Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Sinum haliotoideum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix janthina Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix janthina Linnaeus, 1764 accepted as Janthina prolongata Blainville, 1822 accepted as Janthina globosa Swainson, 1822
Species Helix littorina delle Chiaje, 1828 accepted as Paludinella littorina (delle Chiaje, 1828) accepted as Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix margarita Montagu, 1808 accepted as Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)
Species Helix mespillum Mühlfeld, 1824 accepted as Echinolittorina mespillum (Mühlfeld, 1824)
Species Helix neritoidea Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Sinum neritoideum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix nutans Mühlfeld, 1824 accepted as Melanella nutans (Mühlfeld, 1824)
Species Helix paradoxa Born, 1778 accepted as Chrysostoma paradoxum (Born, 1778)
Species Helix perspicua Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Lamellaria perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix petraea Montagu, 1803 accepted as Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix scabra Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Littoraria scabra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix stagnalis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix subcarinata Montagu, 1803 accepted as Tornus subcarinatus (Montagu, 1803)
Species Helix sulphurea C. B. Adams, 1849 accepted as Tonna pennata (Mörch, 1853)
Species Helix tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Bithynia tentaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Helix terebellum O. F. Müller, 1774 accepted as Pyramidella dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Date   action   by
2005-04-16 10:28:02Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-04-13 19:02:27Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Helix Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153970 on 2013-05-22
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