Helix goderdziana

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Helix goderdziana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Helix
Species:
H. goderdziana
Binomial name
Helix goderdziana
Mumladze, Tarkhnishvili & Pokryszko, 2008 [1]

Helix goderdziana is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

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This is the largest species in the genus Helix. [1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Lesser Caucasus in southwestern Georgia [1] Takes its name from the Goderdzi Pass where it originates. It is the largest non-tropical Eurasian land snail. [2] Presents a 68 mm diameter shell, larger than any other species in the genus, a pale yellowish-brown foot, and shorter glands. [1]

Biotope

This snail lives in humid mountain forests. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Mumladze L., Tarkhnishvili D. & Pokryszko B.M. 2008. A new species of the genus Helix from the Lesser Caucasus (sw Georgia). Journal of Conchology, volume: 39, part 5, page 483, published June 2008. abstract
  2. ↑ Mumladze, Levan; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine (2013). "Systematics and Evolutionary History of Large Endemic Snails from the Caucasus (Helix buchii and H. goderdziana) (Helicidae)" . American Malacological Bulletin. 31 (2): 225–234. doi:10.4003/006.031.0202.


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