Helicodonta
Genus of gastropods
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Helicodonta, common name the "cheese snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae.[2]
| Helicodonta | |
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| Three shells of Helicodonta obvoluta, two juveniles and one adult. Scale bar shows mm and cm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicodontidae |
| Genus: | Helicodonta Férussac, 1821[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix obvoluta O. F. Müller, 1774 | |
| Synonyms | |
Vortex H. Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Helicodonta) | |
The common name is based on the shape of the shell, which is reminiscent of a wheel of cheese.
Species
Species within the genus Helicodonta include:
- Helicodonta angigyra (Rossmässler, 1834)
- Helicodonta langhofferi Wagner, 1912
- Helicodonta obvoluta (Müller, 1774)
- Helicodonta wilhelminae Maassen, 1991
- Species brought into synonymy
- Helicodonta gyria (J. R. Roth, 1839) : synonym of Lindholmiola gyria (J. R. Roth, 1839) (unaccepted combination)
- Helicodonta hispanica Gude, 1910 : synonym of Suboestophora hispanica (Gude, 1910) (original combination)
- Helicodonta involuta (Thomä, 1845) † : synonym of Protodrepanostoma involutum (Thomä, 1845) † (new combination)
- Helicodonta planorbiformis (Sacco, 1886) † : synonym of Protodrepanostoma planorbiforme (Sacco, 1886) †
- Helicodonta sculpturata Gray, 1838 : synonym of Sculptaria sculpturata (Gray, 1838) (original combination)