Taxonomic Swap 8745 (Committed on 2014-09-16)

carmelo_lopez commented previously:
"It should be Helicostyla smaragdina (Reeve, 1842). H. smargadina is a wrong name, which has spread through some databases. EOL provides both names, Wikipedia too. It is a snail green. Smaragdina means similar to emerald. Smargadina not mean anything."

I have found a few 1800s Philippine snail catalogues including this species. It is listed under a variety of latin endings and credited discoverers, but the base is consistently "smarag" instead of "smarga."

H. smaragdus (Beck) in this 1838 book:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058016

H. smaragdina (Reeve) in this 1894 book:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1103070

H. smaragdina in this 1896 book:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38868198

And finally, most of the entries in Global Names Index:
http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?page=1108&search_term=ns%3AHEL*

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Added by sea-kangaroo on September 16, 2014 10:31 PM | Committed by sea-kangaroo on September 16, 2014
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