Helicodiscus parallelus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,856 meters (0 to 15,932 feet).[1]

Biome: Terrestrial .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Helicodiscus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. aldrichianus (Burrowing Coil) · H. barri (Raccoon Coil) · H. bonamicus (Spiral Coil) · H. diadema (Shaggy Coil) · H. eigenmanni (Mexican Coil) · H. enneodon (Bluff Coil) · H. fimbriatus (Fringed Coil) · H. hadenoecus (Cricket Coil) · H. hexodon (Toothy Coil) · H. inermis (Oldfield Coil) · H. lirellus (Rubble Coil) · H. multidens (Twilight Coil) · H. notius (Tight Coil) · H. nummus (Wax Coil) · H. parallelus (Compound Coil) · H. punctatellus (Punctate Coil) · H. salmonaceus (Salmon Coil) · H. saludensis (Corncob Snail) · H. shimeki (Temperate Coil) · H. singleyanus (Smooth Coil) · H. tridens (Crosstimbers Coil) · H. triodus (Talus Coil)

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Further Reading

• A biological survey of the sand dune region on the south shore of Saginaw Bay, Michigan. Prepared under the direction of Alexander G. Ruthven. Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford co., state printers, 1911. url p. 143, p. 148, p. 149, p. 157, p. 330.
• A manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects / by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. with over one thousand illustrations. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923. url p. 523.
• A naturalist in the Great Lakes region, by Elliot Rowland Downing. .. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press[c1922] url , p. 216, p. 326.
• Agriculture of Maine: . .. annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Augusta: [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture, 1903-1940.] url p. 260.
• An illustrated catalogue of the mollusca of Michigan / Lansing: Michigan Geological Survey, 1906- url p. 432, p. 434, p. 442, p. 446, p. 495.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 530.
• Annual report / Florida State Geological Survey. Tallahassee, Fla.: Capital Pub. Co., state printer, url p. 144.
• Annual report of the Ohio State Academy of Science. Columbus: The Academy, 1893-1930. url p. 378.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 377.
• Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bloomington, Ill.: The Laboratory, 1876-1918. url p. 478, p. 478, p. 480, p. 480, p. 485, p. 485, p. 495, p. 495.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 41 1960 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url expl. of plate 22, page 183, p. 200, p. 238, p. 239, p. 240, expl. of plate 15, page 270.
• Catalog of Mollusca of South Carolina / by William Gaillard Mazÿck. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1913. url p. 5.
• College zoology, New York, The Macmillan company, 1912 url p. 259.
• College zoology, by Robert W. Hegner. New York, The Macmillan company, 1912. url p. 259.
• College zoology. New YorkMacmillan1918 url p. 259.
• Fieldbook of Illinois land snails / by Frank Collins Baker. Printed by authority of the state of Illinois. Urbana: Illinois. Natural History Survey Division, 1939. url p. 88, p. 88, p. 90, p. 90.
• How to collect shells, a symposium. Marinette, Wis.]1961. url p. 68.
• Lake Maxinkuckee. A physical and biological survey by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark. [Indianapolis]Dept. of Conservation, State of Indiana [Wm. B. Burford, printer]1920. url p. 479.
• Lake Maxinkuckee. a physical and biological survey by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark. [Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford, printer]1920. url p. 479.
• Lake Maxinkuckee: a physical and biological survey / by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark. Indianapolis: Dept. of Conservation, 1920. url p. 479, p. 75.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1959 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 10, p. 128, fig. 53, page 131, descr. of plate 8, page 134, p. 57, p. 6.
• Mollusca of the southwestern states. I-XI. .. Philadelphia, 1905-23 url p. 156, p. 175.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 140.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 2.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1913- url p. 2, p. 3, p. 4, p. 6, p. 9.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 234, p. 59.
• Report of the Michigan Academy of Science. Lansing, Mich.: The Academy, 1904-1916. url p. 137.
• Science. New York, N.Y.: [s.n.]1880- url p. 505.
• Shells of Maine. A catalogue of the land, fresh-water and marine Mollusca of Maine, by Norman Wallace Lermond. Thomaston, Me., pref. 1908 url p. 44, p. 44.
• Synonymy of the British non-Marine Mollusca (Recent and Post-Tertiary) / Compiled and annotated by A.S. Kennard. .. and B.B. Woodward, &c. London, 1926. url p. 23, p. 352, p. 353.
• Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url p. 26, p. 29.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 54 1940 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url herrington & oughton , walker , p. 129, p. 132, p. 42, p. vi.
• The Journal of geology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1893- url p. 445, p. 45, p. 455, p. 52, p. 53, p. 57.
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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2688308
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-77369
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 77369
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 510674

Footnotes

1. Mean = 410.270 meters (1,346.030 feet), Standard Deviation = 840.610 based on 221 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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