Neohelix

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Neohelix
Neohelix dentifera.jpg
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Tribe: Triodopisini
Genus: Neohelix
H. von Ihering, 1892 [1]

Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis ) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

The shells of Neohelix are not distinguishable from those of the genus Mesodon , but the reproductive anatomy of the two groups of snails is different. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Neohelix include:

References

  1. von Ihering H. (1892). Zeitsch. fur Wissensch. Zool.54: 482.
  2. Pilsbry H. A. (1940). "Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)". Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 834.