Oreohelix Explained

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 neomexicana - Oscura Mountain Land Snail
• 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

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.

Notes and References

1. 10.4003/006.032.0203. Overview of the North American Terrestrial Gastropod Fauna . 2014 . Nekola . Jeffrey C. . American Malacological Bulletin . 32 . 2 . 225–235 . 85303121 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181221140146/http://biology.unm.edu/jnekola/nekola%20pdf/amb-32-225-235.pdf . 2018-12-21 .
2. 41717357. Biogeographic and Taxonomic Relationships Among the Mountain Snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the Central Great Basin . Ports . Mark A. . Western North American Naturalist . 2004 . 64 . 2 . 145–154 .
3. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=77661 Oreohelix.
4. 10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y. Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae) . 2008 . Weaver . Kathleen F. . Perez-Losada . Marcos . Guralnick . Robert P. . Nelson . Ashley . Blatt . Steve . Crandall . Keith A. . Conservation Genetics . 9 . 4 . 907–916 . 24987634 .