Helicostoa

Helicostoa
Syntypes of Helicostoa sinensis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Helicostoidae

Genus:
Helicostoa

Lamy, 1926
Species:
H. sinensis
Binomial name
Helicostoa sinensis
Lamy, 1926

Helicostoa is a monotypic genus of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the order Littorinimorpha containing the single species Helicostoa sinensis.

Helicostoa is also the only genus in the family Helicostoidae. According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Helicostoidae has no subfamilies.

Helicostoa sinensis was previously tentatively placed within the superfamily Rissooidea. and before that it was in the superfamily Vermetoidea.

Helicostoa sinensis is only found in China, more specifically in the Yangtze River.

This freshwater snail lives attached or bonded to blocks of limestone.

References

  1. ↑ (in French) Pruvot-Fol A. (1937). "Etude d'un prosobranche d'eau douce: Helicostoa sinensis Lamy". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 62: 250-257.
  2. 1 2 (in French) Lamy E. (1926). "Sur une coquille enigmatique". Journal de Conchyliologie 70: 51-56. drawing.
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