Oreohelix

Oreohelix is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.

Oreohelix
Three views of an 18 mm shell of 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

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
  1. Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). "nameless paragraph". Nautilus. 17: 131.
  2. Nekola, J. C. (2014). Overview of the North American terrestrial gastropod fauna. Amer. Malac. Bull. 32(1) 1–35.
  3. 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.
  4. Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  5. 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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