Overview
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A Subfamily in the Kingdom Animalia.
Taxonomy
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The Subfamily Helicininae is a member of the Family Helicinidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Helicininae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa
- Lophotrochozoans
- Superphylum: Eutrochozoa
- Phylum: Mollusca
(C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
- Class: Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
- Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder: Neritaemorphi
Koken, 1896
- Order: Neritopsina
Cox & Knight, 1960
- Superfamily: Helicinoidea
A.E.J. de Férussac, 1822
- Family: Helicinidae
A.E.J. de Férussac, 1822 - Helicinids
- Subfamily: Helicininae
- Family: Helicinidae
A.E.J. de Férussac, 1822 - Helicinids
- Superfamily: Helicinoidea
A.E.J. de Férussac, 1822
- Order: Neritopsina
Cox & Knight, 1960
- Superorder: Neritaemorphi
Koken, 1896
- Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Class: Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
- Phylum: Mollusca
(C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
- Superphylum: Eutrochozoa
- Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa
- Lophotrochozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subfamily Helicininae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (2): Alcadia · Helicina
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 221 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Helicininae.
Genera
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Alcadia
Alcadia is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae. [more]
Helicina
Helicina is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Helicinidae. [more]
At least 193 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Helicina.
More info about the Genus Helicina may be found here.
Sources
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