Helicopsis filimargo is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae[2] from Eastern Europe.
Taxonomy
This species is extremely variable and many forms, especially from Crimea, were treated as separate species before revision using methods of molecular taxonomy was carried.[3]
Synonyms of Helicopsis filimargo that were previously treated as species include (among many other):[3]
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Helicopsis arenosa (Krynicki, 1836), equal to Helicopsis dejecta (Rossmässler, 1838)
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Helicopsis retowskii (Clessin, 1883)
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Helicopsis gasprensis (Hesse, 1934), equal to Helicopsis paulhessei (Lindholm, 1936)
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Helicopsis subfilimargo Gural-Sverlova, 2010
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Helicopsis martynovi Gural-Sverlova, 2010
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Helicopsis luganica Gural-Sverlova, 2010
Distribution
This species occurs in Southern and Eastern Ukraine and in the adjacent regions of Russia. Most numerous and diverse populations are in the Crimean Mountains. All reports of H. filimargo outside those regions were referring to various other species of Geomitridae.[3]
References
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^ Krynicki, J. 1833. Novae species aut minus cognitae e chondri, bulimi, peristomae helicisque generibus praecipue Rossiae meridionalis. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 391-436.
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^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. * Helicopsis filimargo (Krynicki, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002382 on 2022-08-01
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^ a b c Balashov, Igor; Neiber, Marco; Hausdorf, Bernhard (December 2020). "Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe-inhabiting land snail genus * Helicopsis in Eastern Europe". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 1–18. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa156.
