Neohelix
Genus of gastropods
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Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
| Neohelix | |
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| A live individual of Neohelix dentifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Tribe: | Triodopisini |
| Genus: | Neohelix H. von Ihering, 1892[1] |
The shells of Neohelix are not distinguishable from those of the genus Mesodon, but the reproductive anatomy of the two groups of snails is different.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Neohelix include:
- Neohelix albolabris
- Neohelix alleni
- Neohelix dentifera
- Neohelix divesta
- Neohelix major
- Neohelix solemi