Oreohelicidae
Family of gastropods
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oreohelicidae is a family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
| Oreohelicidae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Three views of a shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939 |
| Genera | |
|
See text | |
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[1]
Oreohelix, the type genus, is ovoviviparous. Radiocentrum, a subgenus of Oreohelix, is oviparous(Tompa, 1979).[2] The group as a whole generally lacks any apertural barriers or teeth and displays wide variety of shell morphologies (Burke & Leonard 2014).[3]
Genera
The family Oreohelicidae has no subfamilies.
The type genus is Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904.
Genera within the family Oreohelicidae include:
- Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904
- Radiocentrum Pilsbry, 1905
