Helix vladika

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Helix vladika
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Helix
Species:
H. vladika
Binomial name
Helix vladika
(Kobelt, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Helix (Helicogena) wohlberedtiKobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Helicogena) wohlberedti var. poljensisKobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Helix) vladica(Kobelt, 1898) alternate representation
  • Helix secernenda var. insignisBrancsik, 1890 (invalid: junior homonym of H. insignisZieten, 183)
  • Helix vladica pomatiaeformisKobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Pomatia vladicaKobelt, 1898 (original combination)

Helix vladika is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to Montenegro and Serbia. It has a brown, conical shell. It is the largest land snail species in Europe. Typical habitat are beech forests. The species is closely related to Helix straminea . [1]

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References

  1. Korábek, Ondřej; Juřičková, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (2021-12-31). "Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers?". Diversity. 14 (1): 24. doi: 10.3390/d14010024 . ISSN   1424-2818.