Neohelix dentifera

Neohelix dentifera is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Three views of a shell of Neohelix dentifera from W. G. Binney[1]

Neohelix dentifera
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Polygyridae
Genus:
Neohelix
Species:
N. dentifera
Binomial name
Neohelix dentifera
(A. Binney, 1837)

References
  1. Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 12.


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