Helcion Explained

Helcion is a genus of sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Patellidae.

Species

Species within the genus Helcion include:

Subgenus Ansates : accepted as Ansates G.B. Sowerby II [ex Klein], 1839

• Helcion pellucidum - Blue-rayed limpet : accepted as Ansates pellucida (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Helcion tella

Subgenus Helcion

• Helcion pectunculus (Gmelin, 1791)

Subgenus Patinastra

• Helcion dunkeri (Krauss, 1848)
• Helcion pruinosus (Krauss, 1848)

subgenus ?

• Helcion concolor (Krauss, 1848)