Oreohelix idahoensis

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Oreohelix idahoensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Oreohelix
Species:
O. idahoensis
Binomial name
Oreohelix idahoensis
(Hemphill, 1890)

Oreohelix idahoensis, the costate mountain snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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References

  1. Roth B. (1996). Oreohelixi idahoensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.