Helicodiscus parallelus
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| A drawing of a live specimen of Helicodiscus parallelus | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Subgenus: | Helicodiscus
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| Species: | H. parallelus
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| Helicodiscus parallelus | |
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Helicodiscus lineatus | |
Helicodiscus parallelus, common name the compound coil, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodiscidae.
Helicodiscus parallelus is the type species of the genus Helicodiscus.
Distribution
This species occurs in the following countries and islands:
- Northern Mexico. [2]
- Great Lakes region. [3]
- Great Britain as a "hot-house alien"
References
- ^ Say, T. 1821. Descriptions of univalve shells of the United States. - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2 (1): 149-179.
- ^ Helicodiscus parallelus at AnimalBase, accessed 15 December 2008.
- ^ List of non-marine mollusks of the Indiana Dunes, Lake Erie, Indiana.