Helicini
Tribe of molluscs
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Helicini is a tribe of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae. It contains mostly large land snail species, diversified in particular in the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Caucasus.[2][3]
| Helicini | |
|---|---|
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| Caucasotachea atrolabiata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicinae |
| Tribe: | Helicini Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Helix Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Genera[1] | |
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The tribe as currently accepted was delimited with molecular phylogenetic analyses.[4][5] The previously used concept was much broader and included what now constitutes the subfamily Helicinae, but without Theba.[6] In its present sense, the tribe constitutes the eastern clade of Helicinae, in contrast to the primarily North African Otalini and Allognathini from the western Europe and Macaronesia.[2] There is no known synapomorphy.
