Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Punctoidea
Familia: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Oreohelix
Species: O. alpina – O. amariradix – O. anchana – O. barbata – O. californica – O. carinifera – O. concentrata – O. confragosa – O. elrodi – O. eurekensis – O. florida – O. grahamensis – O. hammeri – O. handi – O. haydeni – O. hemphillii – O. hendersoni – O. houghi – O. howardi – O. idahoensis – O. intersum – O. jaegeri – O. jugalis – O. junii – O. litoralis – O. magdalenae – O. metcalfei – O. nevadensis – O. parawanensis – O. peripherica – O. pilsbryi – O. pygmaea – O. socorroensis – O. strigosa – O. subrudis – O. swopei – O. tenuistriata – O. variabilis – O. vortex – O. waltoni – O. yavapai
Name
Genus Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904
References
Pilsbry, H.A. 1904. Oreohelix. The Nautilus 17 (11): 131.
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.
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.
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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