Helix goderdziana

Helix goderdziana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Helicidae
Genus:	Helix
Species:	H. goderdziana
Binomial name
*Helix goderdziana* Mumladze, Tarkhnishvili & Pokryszko, 2008^[1]

Helix goderdziana is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snail.

This is the largest species in the genus Helix.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Lesser Caucasus in southwestern Georgia^[1]

This snail lives in humid montane forest^[1]

1 2 3 4 Mumladze L., Tarkhnishvili D. & Pokryszko B.M. 2008. A new species of the genus Helix from the Lesser Caucasus (sw Georgia). Journal of Conchology, volume: 39, part 5, page 483, published June 2008. abstract

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