Helix ligata
Helix ligata is a species of large, air-breathing land snail native to central and southern Italy.
Taxonomy
Helix ligata is one of several closely related species in a group that diversified in the Apennines. The group still waits for a formal taxonomic revision; the most recent taxonomy proposed based on mitochondrial phylogeny presumed that there are at least five species:- Helix ligata
- Helix pomatella
- Helix miletti
- Helix gussoneana
- ''Helix calabrica''