Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Eupulmonata > Order Stylommatophora

Helicina Schileyko, 1979

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Suborder group names

*Helicoidei*		taxonomically included in
*Limacoidei*		taxonomically included in
*Orthalicoidei*	Hausdorf & Bouchet, 2017	taxonomically included in
*Pupilloidei*		taxonomically included in
*Succineoidei*		taxonomically included in
*Sigmurethra*		synonym

Children

Helicoidei
Limacoidei
Orthalicoidei Hausdorf & Bouchet, 2017
Pupilloidei
Succineoidei

Literature

original description	Schileyko, A. A. (1979). Sistema otrjada Geophila (= Helicida) (Gastropoda Pulmonata). In: Y.I. Starobogatov (ed.), Morphology, systematics and phylogeny of molluscs. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 80: 44-69. Leningrad [20 August]. [translated in English by K.J. Boss & M.K. Jacobson, 1985: The system of the order Geophila (= Helicida) (Gastropoda Pulmonata). - Special Occas. Publ. Dept. Moll. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard, 6: 1-45. Cambridge, Massachusetts].
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Helicina. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:994701