Oreohelix is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.
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| Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
Scientific classification 
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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 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 edit
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 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 edit
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ^ 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 edit
- 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.