Helicopsis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae.[2][3][4]

Helicopsis
Drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of a shell of Helicopsis striata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Helicopsis
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Type species
Helix striata
O. F. Müller, 1774
Diversity[2]
about 9 species
Synonyms
  • Costatella M. Kimakowicz, 1890
  • Helicella (Striatella) Westerlund, 1876 (junior objective synonym)
  • Helicopsis (Helicopsis) Fitzinger, 1833· accepted, alternate representation
  • Heliocopsis Fitzinger, 1833 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
  • Martha A. J. Wagner, 1914 (junior synonym)
  • Striatella Westerlund, 1876
  • Striatinella Clessin, 1876

Distribution

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Distribution of the genus Helicopsis range Central and Eastern Europe to Iran.[2]

Species

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The species composition of Helicopsis was largely reviewed after revisions with methods of molecular taxonomy, many of the previously recognized species were shown to be conspecific and many other to be not related with true Helicopsis.[5][2] After these revisions only 9 or 10 species can be placed into Helicopsis:[5][2]

Synonyms that were recognized as species before 21st century:

Species and synonyms that were placed into Helicopsis, but are not:[2]

References

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  1. ^ (in German) Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88-122. Wien. page 101.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r 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. 193 (3): 1108–1125. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa156.
  3. ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25485783.
  4. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Helicopsis Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934023 on 2022-07-31
  5. ^ a b c d Duda, Michael; Haring, Elisabeth; Bieringer, Georg; Eschner, Anita; Mrkvicka, Alexander; Mason, Katharina (November 2018). "Taxonomic reassessment of Helicopsis austriaca Gittenberger, 1969 and its relationships to H. striata (O.F. Müller, 1774) and H. hungarica (Soos & H. Wagner, 1935) (Eupulmonata: Helicoidea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies: 432–450. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyy044.
  6. ^ Field Museum of Natural History Invertebrates Helicopsis buslimiana
  7. ^ Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Mollusk Collection: Helicopsis dejecta
  8. ^ a b c "Species in genus Helicopsis" (n=13). AnimalBase, accessed 11 June 2012.
  9. ^ Martínez-Ortí, A. (2011). "Xerocrassa ripacurcica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T156456A4947695. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156456A4947695.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  10. ^ Seddon, M.B. (1996). "Xeroleuca conopsis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9806A13018324. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9806A13018324.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.