Biology:Oreohelix

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Oreohelix
OreohelixSubridis1.jpg
Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Oreohelix

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

Oreohelix is the type genus for the family Oreohelicidae.

There are about 79 species in this genus.[1] They are native to the western United States, especially the Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and Southwest.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Oreohelix include:[1][3]

  • 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)[4]
  • 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. 1.0 1.1 Nekola, Jeffrey C. (2014). "Overview of the North American Terrestrial Gastropod Fauna". American Malacological Bulletin 32 (2): 225–235. doi:10.4003/006.032.0203. http://biology.unm.edu/jnekola/nekola%20pdf/amb-32-225-235.pdf. 
  2. Ports, Mark A. (2004). "Biogeographic and Taxonomic Relationships Among the Mountain Snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the Central Great Basin". Western North American Naturalist 64 (2): 145–154. 
  3. Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  4. Weaver, Kathleen F.; Perez-Losada, Marcos; Guralnick, Robert P.; Nelson, Ashley; Blatt, Steve; Crandall, Keith A. (2008). "Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae)". Conservation Genetics 9 (4): 907–916. doi:10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y. 

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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