Neohelix
Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.
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| A live individual of Neohelix dentifera | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Neohelix von Ihering, 1892[1] |
The shells of Neohelix are not distinguishable from those of the genus Mesodon, but the reproductive anatomy of the two groups of snails is different.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Neohelix include:
- Neohelix albolabris
- Neohelix dentifera
- Neohelix divesta
- Neohelix multilineata
- Neohelix major
- Neohelix solemi
- Neohelix alleni
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References
- von Ihering H. (1892). Zeitsch. fur Wissensch. Zool. 54: 482.
- Pilsbry H. A. (1940). "Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)". Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 834.
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