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Helicodonta
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Helicodonta

Helicodonta, common name the "cheese snail", is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Helicodontinae of the family Helicodontidae.

The common name is based on the shape of the shell, which is reminiscent of a wheel of cheese.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cheese Snail

speciesHelicodonta obvoluta

Helicodonta angigyra

speciesHelicodonta angigyra

Helicodonta langhofferi

speciesHelicodonta langhofferi

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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 88764.