Oreohelix
Genus of gastropods
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Oreohelix is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.
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| Three views of an 18 mm shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Oreohelicidae |
| Genus: | Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904[1] |
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 cooperi- Cooper's rocky 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