Helicopsis striata is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicopsis striata (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003421 on 2021-02-02
Helicopsis striata is the type species of the genus Helicopsis."Species in genus Helicopsis". AnimalBase, accessed 11 June 2012.
Subspecies Until 2018 there where three subspecies within this species and they included: Helicopsis striata austriacaE. Gittenberger, 1969 - mentioned in annex II of Habitats Directive : synonym of Helicopsis austriaca E. Gittenberger, 1969 (invalid combination) Helicopsis striata hungarica: synonym of Helicopsis hungarica (Soós & H. Wagner, 1935) (invalid combination) Helicopsis striata striata O. F. Müller, 1774) Since 2018 H. austriaca and H. hungarica are listed as separate species.Duda M., Haring E., Bieringer G., Eschner A., Mrkvicka A. & Mason K. (2018). "Taxonomic reassessment of Helicopsis austriaca Gittenberger, 1969 and its relationships to H. striata (O.F. Müller, 1774) and H. hungarica (Soos & H. Wagner, 1935) (Eupulmonata: Helicoidea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 84: 432-450. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyy044Helicopsis austriaca on WoRMSHelicopsis hungarica on WoRMS
Distribution
This species occurs in Central Europe only, including: Germany Austria - main distribution in Steinfeld, Lower Austria Sweden The Czech Republic - Bohemia, locally extinct in Moravia Slovakia Poland
Populations from Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Russia that were previously considered to be H. striata are actually representing Helicopsis lunulata (Krynicki, 1833) or in some cases Helicopsis filimargo (Krynicki, 1833).
References
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017 Hausdorf, B. (1990). Zur Kenntnis einiger Arten der Gattung Helicopsis Fitzinger aus Griechenland und der Türkei (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 120 (1/3) : 57–71. Frankfurt am Main Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates
External links
Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana. Working group Alpine land snails: Small heath snails – major questions: Initial attempts to clarify the situation of Helicopsis striata in Austria