Helicostyla

Helicostyla
Helicostyla rufogaster S5-02 Mehestan Natural History Collection, Iran, 2025, 46mm
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Helicostylinae
Genus: Helicostyla
Férussac, 1821
Type species
Helix mirabilis Férussac, 1821
Synonyms
  • Bulimus (Eudoxus) Albers, 1850
  • Bulimus (Orthostylus) Beck, 1837 (original combination)
  • Cochlostyla (Helicostyla) Férussac, 1821 (unaccepted combination)
  • Cochlostyla (Opalliostyla) Pilsbry, 1896 · alternate representation
  • Cochlostyla (Orthostylus) Beck, 1837 (unaccepted combination)
  • Eudoxus Albers, 1850
  • Helicostyla (Cochlodryas) Martens, 1860· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicostyla (Dryocochlias) Möllendorff, 1898· accepted, alternate representation (basionym)
  • Helicostyla (Eudoxus) Albers, 1850· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helicostyla (Helicostyla) Férussac, 1821 · alternate representation
  • Helicostyla (Opalliostyla) Pilsbry, 1896 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name)
  • Helicostyla (Orthostylus) Beck, 1837 · alternate representation
  • Orthostylus Beck, 1837 (junior synonym)

Helicostyla is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicostylinae of the family Camaenidae. Helicostyla is the type genus of the subfamily Helicostylinae.