Helicina guppyi
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| Helicina guppyi | |
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| An apertural view of the shell of Helicina guppyi. Note the presence of the operculum. The height of the shell is 5.99 mm. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Helicinidae |
| Genus: | Helicina |
| Species: | H. guppyi |
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| Helicina guppyi | |
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Helicina guppyi is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.
The species is smaller and lower-spired than the other Dominican Helicina species, and always has a dull brown colour, a paler aperture and a hairy periostracum; ‘covered with a velvety epidermis’, weakly keeled, with a columellar denticle.[2] Its size is 5-8.5 mm.[2][clarification needed]
Distribution
This species lives in Guadeloupe, Dominica and in Martinique.[2]
This is the most common of the helicinids in Dominica, but generally restricted to the leeward side of the island.[2]