Vespericola
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| Vespericola | |
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| Drawing: three views of a shell of Vespericola columbiana from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
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| Photograph: three views of a shell of Vespericola armigera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Subfamily: | Triodopsinae |
| Tribe: | Vespericolini |
| Genus: | Vespericola Pilsbry, 1939 |
Vespericola is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
These snails are found along the Pacific Coast of North America, from southern Alaska and British Columbia to California.
Shell description
The shells of these small to medium, globose or depressed globose snails are usually some shade of brown, sometimes without apertural teeth and sometimes with a single tooth on the parietal wall. Small periostracal hairs may be observed on the shell surface of many specimens, but the shells otherwise resemble those of Praticolella or Mesodon.[2]
