Helicini
tribe of gastropods
Helicini is a tribe of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae. It contains mostly large land snail species, diversified in particular in the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Caucasus.
The tribe as currently accepted was delimited with molecular phylogenetic analyses. The previously used concept was much broader and included what now constitutes the subfamily Helicinae, but without Theba. In its present sense, the tribe constitutes the eastern clade of Helicinae, in contrast to the primarily North African Otalini and Allognathini from the western Europe and Macaronesia. There is no known synapomorphy.
“Helicini” enters the record as tribe of gastropods. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Helicini, tribe and gastropods can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21231778. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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