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Cyrnotheba corsica

Cyrnotheba corsica

Classification

Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. It is the type genus of the family Helicidae and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature. Members of the genus first appeared in the fossil record during the Miocene.

Distribution

Shuttleworth, 1843 · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 28