Tyrrhenaria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Tyrrhenaria
Helix ceratina shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Genus:
Tyrrhenaria

Hesse, 1918[1]

This genus has become a junior synonym of Helix Linnaeus, 1758[2]

Species

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Species within the genus Tyrrhenaria include:

References

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  1. ^ Hesse P. (1918). "Kritische Fragmente". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 50(1): 34-40. page 38.
  2. ^ Fiorentino, V., Manganelli, G., Giusti, F. & Ketmaier, V. (2016). Recent expansion and relic survival: Phylogeography of the land snail genus Helix (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from south to north Europe. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98: 358-372.
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