Helminthoglypta tudiculata, common names the southern California shoulderband or southern shoulderband, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Southern California Shoulderband being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Helminthoglypta phlyctaena
- Helminthoglypta walkeriana
- Helminthoglypta traskii
- Helminthoglypta sanctaecrucis
- Helminthoglypta umbilicata
- Helminthoglypta benitoensis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Xanthonychidae
- Genus
- Helminthoglypta
- Species
- Helminthoglypta tudiculata
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