Oreohelix

Oreohelix
Oreohelix
Oreohelix subrudis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
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.

Species

Species within the genus Oreohelix include:

References

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1904) Nautilus 17: 131.

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.