Helicinidae

Helicinidae
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma
A live individual of Alcadia conuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:	Helicinoidea
Family:	Helicinidae Férussac, 1822
Diversity
770-1400 species (estimation)

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.

These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, despite a superficial similarity of the shells.

These snails are found in tropical and subtropical areas but they have an odd distribution: they are restricted to the Caribbean islands and some Indo-Pacific and Pacific islands, as well as the edge of the Asian and Australian continents.

Helicinidae belongs to superfamily Helicinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family consists of six following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera within the family Helicinidae include:

Subfamily Helicininae

subfamily Ceratodiscinae

Subfamily † Dimorphoptychiinae

Subfamily Hendersoniinae

Subfamily Stoastomatinae

Subfamily Vianinae

Subfamily ?

species specific reading:

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