Galapagos Species Database
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Helicina nesiotica
Shell small, depressed, with rounded periphery; spire depressed; suture very distinct, not channelled; base moderately convex; peristome not thickened nor reflected; epidermis of a bright reddish chestnut, polished, but with obvious regular incremental lines; base with a thin white callus merging into the lower lip without notch or angle; operculum smooth, whitish, angulated only at the upper extreme; 2.3 × 3.3 mm (Dall 1896).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily
Helicinoidea
Family
Helicinidae
Genus
Helicina
Species
nesiotica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Helicina wolfi Reibisch 1893, fide Dall, 1896
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Floreana, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Pinzón Island (Miquel & Herrera, 2014).
- Dall, W.H. (1900) Additions to the Insular land-shell faunas of the pacific coast, especially of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the Acadamy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 88-103.
- Miquel, S.E. Henri W. Herrera (2019) Contribution to the knowledge of selected land gastropods of Galápagos (Ecuador) (Mollusca, Cycloneritida and Stylommatophora) ISSN 0341-8391
- Miquel, S.E. Herrera, W.H. (2014) Catalogue of terrestrial gastropods from Galapagos (exept Bulimulidae and Succineidae) with description of a new species of Ambrosiella odhner (Achatinellidae) Molluskenfunde 143 (2) 107-133
- Odhner, N. (1951) Studies on Galápagos bulimulids Journal de Conchyliologie 90 (4): 253-268
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"Galapagos Species Database, Helicina nesiotica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7502. Accessed 1 November 2026.