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Oreohelix
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Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
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]

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<i>Oreohelix subrudis</i> Species of gastropod

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

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References

  1. Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
  2. 1 2 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.

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