Oreohelix
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| Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Oreohelix |
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]
- – alpine mountainsnail
- – Bitter Root mountainsnail
- – Ancha mountainsnail
- – bearded mountainsnail
- – Clark mountainsnail
- Oreohelix carinifera – keeled mountainsnail
- – Huachuca mountainsnail
- – Pinos Altos mountainsnail
- – carinate mountainsnail
- – Eureka mountainsnail
- Oreohelix hammeri – Seven Devils mountainsnail
- – spring mountainsnail
- – lyrate mountainsnail
- – pallid mountainsnail
- – Mill Creek mountainsnail
- Oreohelix idahoensis – costate mountainsnail
- – Deep Slide mountainsnail
- – Kyle Canyon mountainsnail
- Oreohelix jugalis – Boulder Pile mountainsnail
- – Grand Coulee mountainsnail
- – Magdalena mountainsnail
- – Black Range mountainsnail
- – Schell Creek mountainsnail
- – Deseret mountainsnail
- Oreohelix peripherica peripherica (Ancey, 1881)
- Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Binney, 1886)[5]
- – Mineral Creek mountainsnail
- – pygmy mountainsnail
- – Socorro mountainsnail
- – rocky mountainsnail
- Oreohelix subrudis – subalpine mountainsnail
- – Morgan Creek mountainsnail
- – thin-ribbed mountainsnail
- Oreohelix vortex – vortex banded mountainsnail
- Oreohelix waltoni – lava rock mountainsnail
- – Yavapai mountainsnail
References[]
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
- ^ a b Nekola, J. C. (2014). Overview of the North American terrestrial gastropod fauna.[permanent dead link] Amer. Malac. Bull. 32(1) 1–35.
- ^ Ports, M. A. (2004). Biogeographic and taxonomic relationships among the mountain snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the central Great Basin. Western North American Naturalist 64(2) 145-54.
- ^ Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ^ Weaver, K. F., et al. (2008). Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae). Conservation Genetics 9(4) 907-16.
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.
Categories:
- Oreohelicidae
- Punctoidea stubs