Helix vladika

Helix vladika is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to Montenegro and Serbia. It has a brown, conical shell. It is the largest land snail species in Europe. Typical habitat are beech forests. The species is closely related to Helix straminea.[1]

Helix vladika
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Helix
Species:
H. vladika
Binomial name
Helix vladika
(Kobelt, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Helix (Helicogena) wohlberedti Kobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Helicogena) wohlberedti var. poljensis Kobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Helix) vladica (Kobelt, 1898) alternate representation
  • Helix secernenda var. insignis Brancsik, 1890 (invalid: junior homonym of H. insignis Zieten, 183)
  • Helix vladica pomatiaeformis Kobelt, 1905 (junior synonym)
  • Pomatia vladica Kobelt, 1898 (original combination)

References
  1. Korábek, Ondřej; Juřičková, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (2021-12-31). "Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers?". Diversity. 14 (1): 24. doi:10.3390/d14010024. ISSN 1424-2818.
  • Neubert, E. (2014). Revision of Helix Linnaeus, 1758 in its eastern Mediterranean distribution area, and reassignment of Helix godetiana Kobelt, 1878 to Maltzanella Hesse, 1917 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae). Contributions to Natural History, 26: 1-200. Bern
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017


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