Oreohelix
Oreohelix is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.
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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 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 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
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
- Nekola, J. C. (2014). Overview of the North American terrestrial gastropod fauna. Amer. Malac. Bull. 32(1) 1–35.
- Ports, M. A. (2004). Biogeographic and taxonomic relationships among the mountain snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the central Great Basin. Western North American Naturalist 64(2) 145-54.
- Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- Weaver, K. F., et al. (2008). Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae). Conservation Genetics 9(4) 907-16.
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.
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