Vespericola columbiana | |
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Three views of a shell of Vespericola columbiana from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Polygyridae |
Genus: | Vespericola |
Species: | V. columbiana |
Binomial name | |
Vespericola columbiana (I. Lea, 1838) | |
Vespericola columbiana, common name the northwest hesperian, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.
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