Helix lutescens

Taxobox
name = "Helix lutescens"


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status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Helicidae
genus = "Helix"
species = "H. lutescens"
binomial = "Helix lutescens"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

"Helix lutescens" is species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

This species of snail creates and uses calcareous love darts.

Distribution

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 2 April 2007.]

Its native distribution is pericarpathian. [(in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991) Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs] . - VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.]

* Poland - Near Threatened (NT, mentioned as lower risk LR) [ [http://www.iop.krakow.pl/pckz/opis.asp?id=256&je=pl Helix lutescens - Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce ] ] []
* Slovakia

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