Vespericola columbiana

Vespericola columbiana, common name the northwest hesperian, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.

Vespericola columbiana
Three views of a shell of Vespericola columbiana
from W. G. Binney, 1878[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Vespericola
Species:
V. columbiana
Binomial name
Vespericola columbiana
(I. Lea, 1838)

Subspecies

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  • Vespericola columbiana depressa (Pilsbry & Henderson, 1936)
  • Vespericola columbiana latilabrum Pilsbry, 1940

References

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  1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 13a.