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Helisoma
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Helisoma

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

Helisoma snails are an intermediate host of Megalodiscus temperatus.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Two-ridged Ramshorn

speciesHelisoma anceps

Great Basin Ramshorn

speciesHelisoma newberryi

Helisoma peruvianum

speciesHelisoma peruvianum

Greenfield Ramshorn

speciesHelisoma eucosmium

Helisoma minus

speciesHelisoma minus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 148201.