''Hemicycla pouchet'' is a species of

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

in the family Helicidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hemicycla pouchet (A. Férussac, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050297 on 2021-02-27 It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

References

* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017. * báñez, M. & Alonso, M.R. (2007). A tale of two snails: "Le Pouchet" from Adanson (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Helicidae). Zoosystema, 29 (3): 575-582

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Hemicycla Molluscs of the Canary Islands Endemic fauna of the Canary Islands Gastropods described in 1821 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Helicidae-stub