Helicini

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.^[2][3]

Helicini
Caucasotachea atrolabiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Helicinae
Tribe:	Helicini Rafinesque, 1815
Type genus
Helix Linnaeus, 1758
Genera[1]
Amanica H. Nordsieck, 2017 Aristena Psonis, Vardinoyannis & Poulakakis, 2022 Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909 Codringtonia Kobelt, 1898 Helix Linnaeus, 1758 Isaurica Kobelt, 1901 Levantina Kobelt, 1871 Lindholmia P. Hesse, 1918 Maltzanella P. Hesse, 1917 Neocrassa Subai, 2005

The tribe as currently accepted was delimited with molecular phylogenetic analyses.^[4][5] The previously used concept was much broader and included what now constitutes the subfamily Helicinae, but without Theba.^[6] 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.^[2] There is no known synapomorphy.