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Cheese Snail

Helicodonta obvoluta

Classification

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. Species Species within the genus Helicodonta include: Helicodonta angigyra (Rossmässler, 1834) Helicodonta langhofferi Wagner, 1912 Helicodonta obvoluta (Müller, 1774) Helicodonta wilhelminae Maassen, 1991 Species brought into synonymy Helicodonta gyria (J.

Distribution

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