Oreohelix

Genus of gastropods

Oreohelix

Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Oreohelicidae
Genus:	Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904^[1]

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.^[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 neomexicana - Oscura Mountain Land Snail
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.
^ ^a ^b Nekola, Jeffrey C. (2014). "Overview of the North American Terrestrial Gastropod Fauna" (PDF). American Malacological Bulletin. 32 (2): 225–235. doi:10.4003/006.032.0203. S2CID 85303121. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-21.
^ 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. JSTOR 41717357.
^ Oreohelix. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
^ 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. S2CID 24987634.