Vortex banded mountain snail

The vortex banded mountain snail or whorled mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix vortex, 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.

Vortex banded mountain snail
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. vortex
Binomial name
Oreohelix vortex
S. S. Berry, 1932

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


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