Helix ligata explained

Helix ligata is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to central and southern Italy.

Taxonomy

Helix ligata is one of closely related species in a group that diversified in the Apennines. The group still waits for a formal taxonomic revision; the most recent taxonomy proposed based on mitochondrial phylogeny presumed that there are at least five species:^[1]

• Helix ligata
• Helix pomatella
• Helix miletti
• Helix gussoneana
• Helix calabrica

References

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana

Notes and References

1. Fiorentino . V. . Manganelli . G. . Giusti . F. . Ketmaier . V. . 2016-05-01 . Recent expansion and relic survival: Phylogeography of the land snail genus Helix (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from south to north Europe . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . en . 98 . 358–372 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.017 . 1055-7903.