Helicopsis filimargo

Helicopsis filimargo is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae from Eastern Europe.

Helicopsis filimargo
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Helicellinae
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Helicopsini
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H. filimargo
Binomial name
Helicopsis filimargo
(Krynicki, 1833)[1]

Taxonomy

This species is extremely variable and many forms, especially from Crimea, were treated as separate species before revision using methods of molecular taxonomy was carried.[2]

Synonyms of Helicopsis filimargo that were previously treated as species include (among many other):[2]

  • Helicopsis arenosa (Krynicki, 1836), equal to Helicopsis dejecta (Rossmässler, 1838)
  • Helicopsis retowskii (Clessin, 1883)
  • Helicopsis gasprensis (Hesse, 1934), equal to Helicopsis paulhessei (Lindholm, 1936)
  • Helicopsis subfilimargo Gural-Sverlova, 2010
  • Helicopsis martynovi Gural-Sverlova, 2010
  • Helicopsis luganica Gural-Sverlova, 2010

Distribution

This species occurs in Southern and Eastern Ukraine and in the adjacent regions of Russia. Most numerous and diverse populations are in the Crimean Mountains.[2]

References

  1. Krynicki, J. 1833. Novae species aut minus cognitae e chondri, bulimi, peristomae helicisque generibus praecipue Rossiae meridionalis. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 391-436.
  2. Balashov, Igor; Neiber, Marco; Hausdorf, Bernhard (December 2020). "Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe-inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis in Eastern Europe". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 1–18. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa156.
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