Lava rock mountain snail

Lava rock mountain snail
Lava rock mountain snail
Conservation status
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
Species: O. waltoni
Binomial name
Oreohelix waltoni
Solem, 1975

The lava rock mountain snail, also known as Walton's banded mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix waltoni, 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.

References

  1. ^ Roth B. (1996). Oreohelix waltoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.