Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Helicina ochsneri
Shell high, more conical and slightly larger, blackish periostracum which is raised on the spire between sutures into two or three fringed short spiral threads; the periostracum appears to be of an adhesive nature and all the specimens in their original condition are more or less covered with a blackish coating; 4.7 × 3.5 mm (Dall 1917).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily
Helicinoidea
Family
Helicinidae
Genus
Helicina
Species
ochsneri
Taxon category: Accepted
Subgenus: Idesa
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Sabela y San Cristóbal (Miquel & Herrera, 2014).
- Dall, W. H. W. H. Ochsner (1928) Landshells of the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4º Series, 17 (5): 141-185, pls. 8-9
- 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
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"Galapagos Species Database, Helicina ochsneri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7503. Accessed 1 November 2026.