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Oreohelix
Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Oreohelix
Pilsbry, 1904[1]

Oreohelix is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.

Oreohelix is the type genus for the family Oreohelicidae.

There are about 79 species in this genus.[2] They are native to the western United States, especially the Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and Southwest.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Oreohelix include:[2][4]

References

  1. ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
  2. ^ a b Nekola, Jeffrey C. (2014). "Overview of the North American Terrestrial Gastropod Fauna" (PDF). American Malacological Bulletin. 32 (2): 225–235. doi:10.4003/006.032.0203. S2CID 85303121. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-21.
  3. ^ Ports, Mark A. (2004). "Biogeographic and Taxonomic Relationships Among the Mountain Snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the Central Great Basin". Western North American Naturalist. 64 (2): 145–154. JSTOR 41717357.
  4. ^ Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  5. ^ Weaver, Kathleen F.; Perez-Losada, Marcos; Guralnick, Robert P.; Nelson, Ashley; Blatt, Steve; Crandall, Keith A. (2008). "Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae)". Conservation Genetics. 9 (4): 907–916. doi:10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y. S2CID 24987634.

Further reading

  • Pilsbry, H. A. (1948). "Inland Mollusks of Northern Mexico. I. The genera Humboldtiana, Sonorella, Oreohelix and Ashmunella". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 100: 185–203.