# Helicinae

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Subfamily of land snails

Helicinae From left to right: Roman snail (Helix pomatia), Garden snail (Cornu aspersum) and White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis), three species of Helicinae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Stylommatophora Family: Helicidae Subfamily: Helicinae Rafinesque, 1815[1] Type genus Helix Linnaeus, 1758 Tribes Helicini Allognathini Maculariini Thebini

**Helicinae** is a [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) of [terrestrial](/source/Terrestrial_animal) [gastropods](/source/Gastropoda) in the family [Helicidae](/source/Helicidae). It contains mostly large [land snail](/source/Land_snail) [species](/source/Species), distributed in the western [Palaearctic](/source/Palearctic_realm). The most recent (as of 2023) classification proposed division into three [tribes](/source/Tribe_(biology)).[2][3]

The subfamily contains the largest [helicids](/source/Helicidae), and includes widely known, widespread species like the [garden snail](/source/Cornu_aspersum), [grove snail](/source/Grove_snail), [white garden snail](/source/Theba_pisana), [chocolate-band snail](/source/Eobania_vermiculata) or the [Roman snail](/source/Helix_pomatia).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

*[Caucasotachea atrolabiata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caucasotachea_atrolabiata&action=edit&redlink=1)*

## See also

- [Taxonomy of the Helicidae](/source/Helicidae#Taxonomy)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CoL_1-0)** ["Helicinae Rafinesque, 1815"](https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7NXPL). *[Catalogue of Life](/source/Catalogue_of_Life)*. [Species 2000](/source/Species_2000): Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Neiber, Marco T; Korábek, Ondřej; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2022-04-11). ["A misinterpreted disjunction: the phylogenetic relationships of the North African land snail Gyrostomella (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)"](https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/4/1236/6445973). *Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society*. **194** (4): 1236–1251. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab059](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fzoolinnean%2Fzlab059). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0024-4082](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0024-4082).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Terrestrial Snails and Slugs"](https://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/terrestrial.html?/gastropoda/terrestrial/helix/systematics.html). *www.molluscs.at*. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

Taxon identifiers Helicinae Wikidata: Q16641509 Wikispecies: Helicinae CoL: 7NXPL Fauna Europaea: 425920 Fauna Europaea (new): 55be89e2-8b41-465c-a828-dfac4e8673b3 iNaturalist: 906896 Open Tree of Life: 7500577 Taxonomicon: 77117 WoRMS: 934235 ZooBank: 45D245D9-0667-4320-AFE8-8F22DEF355B2

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