Helisoma

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Helisoma is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

Phylum:Mollusca
Superorder:Hygrophila
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Helisoma
Helisoma anceps
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Tribe: Helisomatini
Genus: Helisoma
Swainson, 1840[1]
Synonyms
  • Carinifex W. G. Binney, 1864
  • Helisoma (Helisoma) Swainson, 1840
  • Planorbis (Carinifex) W. G. Binney, 1864
  • Planorbis (Helisoma) Swainson, 1840
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Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.[2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Helisoma:

  • Helisoma anceps (Menke, 1830)
  • Helisoma brevispira (Yen, 1946)
  • Helisoma dongdawusuensis (G.-X. Zhu, 1976)
  • Helisoma eucosmium (Bartsch, 1908)
  • Helisoma eyerdami Clench & Aguayo, 1932
  • Helisoma kettlemanensis Pilsbry, 1934
  • Helisoma lincki (Schütze, 1907)
  • Helisoma llanerensis (K. van W. Palmer, 1945)
  • Helisoma malheurense (J. Henderson & Rodeck, 1934)
  • Helisoma marshalli (Arnold, 1909)
  • Helisoma minus (J. G. Cooper, 1870)
  • Helisoma newberryi (I. Lea, 1858)
  • Helisoma parallelum A. B. Leonard & Franzen, 1944
  • Helisoma paritis X.-H. Yu, 1987
  • Helisoma peruvianum (Broderip, 1832)
  • Helisoma ringentis X.-H. Yu, 1987
  • Helisoma sanctaeclarae (Hannibal, 1909)
  • Helisoma sheyangensis H.-J. Wang, 1977
  • Helisoma shotwelli (D. W. Taylor, 1963)
  • Helisoma triangulatum Pierce, 2001

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