A Guide for Terrestrial Gastropod Identification - University of ...

Carychium exile I. Lea, 1842 G5
AL, AR, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO,
MS, NC, ND, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV;
Canada: AB, NS, ON, QC
Carychium mexicanum Pilsbry, 1891 G5 AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, OK, SC, TN, TX
Carychium nannodes G.H. Clapp, 1905 G5
AL, GA, IN, KY, MD, MI, MS, NC, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV;
Canada: ON
Carychium occidentale Pilsbry, 1891 G3G4 CA, ID, OR, WA; Canada: BC
Carychium riparium Hubricht, 1978 G2G3 IN, KY; Canada: ON
Carychium stygium Call, 1897 G3G4 KY, TN
Cepolidae
Jochen Gerber, Field Museum of Natural History
This family occurs in the Greater Antilles and in the Bahamas. Only one species,
Hemitrochus varians, also lives in North America (South Florida). Its medium-sized (ca 15 mm
in diameter) shell is globose-conic, perforate, the aperture not expanded. The relatively smooth
shell is white with varying arrangements of dark spiral bands. Aperture pinkish within.
Hemitrochus varians lives on shrubs and trees.
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Hemitrochus varians (Menke, 1829) G2G4 FL
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