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Oreohelix
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Oreohelicidae |
Genus: | Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904[1] |
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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]