title: Helicina platychila
text: # Helicina platychila
  
  Helicina platychila is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.
  
  The description of Helicina epistilia Guppy, 1868 matches this species, and these names are therefore considered synonyms.
  
  ## Shell description
  
  As in many helicinid species, the shell of Helicina platychila can be yellow, to red, to brown in colour.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species lives in Guadeloupe, Dominica and in Martinique.
  
  The type locality is Guadeloupe.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  Helicina platychila is fairly common arboreally on branches and leaf surfaces, and between detritus and leaves on the ground, occasionally together with Helicina guppyi in Dominica.
  
  