Helicini

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Helicini
File:Caucasotachea atrolabiata.jpg
Caucasotachea atrolabiata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Helicini
Rafinesque, 1815
Type genus
Helix
Linnaeus, 1758
Genera[1]

Helicini is a tribe of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae. It contains mostly large land snail species, diversified in particular in the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Caucasus.[2][3]

The tribe as currently accepted was delimited with molecular phylogenetic analyses.[4][5] The previously used concept was much broader and included what now constitutes the subfamily Helicinae, but without Theba.[6] In its present sense, the tribe constitutes the eastern clade of Helicinae, in contrast to the primarily North African Otalini and Allognathini from the western Europe and Macaronesia.[2] There is no known synapomorphy.

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