Oreohelix

Oreohelix
Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis
Scientific 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]}

• Oreohelix alpina – alpine mountainsnail
• Oreohelix amariradix – Bitter Root mountainsnail
• Oreohelix anchana – Ancha mountainsnail
• Oreohelix barbata – bearded mountainsnail
• Oreohelix californica – Clark mountainsnail
• Oreohelix carinifera – keeled mountainsnail
• Oreohelix concentrata – Huachuca mountainsnail
• Oreohelix confragosa – Pinos Altos mountainsnail
• Oreohelix cooperi- Cooper's rocky mountainsnail
• Oreohelix elrodi – carinate mountainsnail
• Oreohelix eurekensis – Eureka mountainsnail
• Oreohelix hammeri – Seven Devils mountainsnail
• Oreohelix handi – spring mountainsnail
• Oreohelix haydeni – lyrate mountainsnail
• Oreohelix hendersoni – pallid mountainsnail
• Oreohelix howardi – Mill Creek mountainsnail
• Oreohelix idahoensis – costate mountainsnail
• Oreohelix intersum – Deep Slide mountainsnail
• Oreohelix jaegeri – Kyle Canyon mountainsnail
• Oreohelix jugalis – Boulder Pile mountainsnail
• Oreohelix junii – Grand Coulee mountainsnail
• Oreohelix magdalenae – Magdalena mountainsnail
• Oreohelix metcalfei – Black Range mountainsnail
• Oreohelix nevadensis – Schell Creek mountainsnail
• Oreohelix neomexicana - Oscura Mountain Land Snail
• Oreohelix peripherica – Deseret mountainsnail
  • Oreohelix peripherica peripherica (Ancey, 1881)
  • Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Binney, 1886) ^[5]
• Oreohelix pilsbryi – Mineral Creek mountainsnail
• Oreohelix pygmaea – pygmy mountainsnail
• Oreohelix socorroensis – Socorro mountainsnail
• Oreohelix strigosa – rocky mountainsnail
• Oreohelix subrudis – subalpine mountainsnail
• Oreohelix swopei – Morgan Creek mountainsnail
• Oreohelix tenuistriata – thin-ribbed mountainsnail
• Oreohelix vortex – vortex banded mountainsnail
• Oreohelix waltoni – lava rock mountainsnail
• Oreohelix yavapai – Yavapai mountainsnail

References

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

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.