# Oreohelix

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***Oreohelix*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of air-breathing [land snail](/source/Land_snail), a [terrestrial](/source/Terrestrial_molluscs) [pulmonate](/source/Pulmonate) [gastropod](/source/Gastropod) [mollusk](/source/Mollusk) in the family [Oreohelicidae](/source/Oreohelicidae).

*Oreohelix* is the [type genus](/source/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](/source/Rocky_Mountains), [Great Basin](/source/Great_Basin), and [Southwest](/source/Southwestern_United_States).[3]

## Species

Species within the genus *Oreohelix* include:[2][4]

- *[Oreohelix alpina](/source/Oreohelix_alpina)* – alpine mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix amariradix](/source/Oreohelix_amariradix)* – Bitter Root mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix anchana](/source/Oreohelix_anchana)* – Ancha mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix barbata](/source/Oreohelix_barbata)* – bearded mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix californica](/source/Oreohelix_californica)* – Clark mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix carinifera](/source/Oreohelix_carinifera)* – keeled mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix concentrata](/source/Oreohelix_concentrata)* – Huachuca mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix confragosa](/source/Oreohelix_confragosa)* – Pinos Altos mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix cooperi](/source/Oreohelix_cooperi)-* Cooper's rocky mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix elrodi](/source/Oreohelix_elrodi)* – carinate mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix eurekensis](/source/Oreohelix_eurekensis)* – Eureka mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix hammeri](/source/Oreohelix_hammeri)* – Seven Devils mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix handi](/source/Oreohelix_handi)* – spring mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix haydeni](/source/Oreohelix_haydeni)* – lyrate mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix hendersoni](/source/Oreohelix_hendersoni)* – pallid mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix howardi](/source/Oreohelix_howardi)* – Mill Creek mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix idahoensis](/source/Oreohelix_idahoensis)* – costate mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix intersum](/source/Oreohelix_intersum)* – Deep Slide mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix jaegeri](/source/Oreohelix_jaegeri)* – Kyle Canyon mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix jugalis](/source/Oreohelix_jugalis)* – Boulder Pile mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix junii](/source/Oreohelix_junii)* – Grand Coulee mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix magdalenae](/source/Oreohelix_magdalenae)* – Magdalena mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix metcalfei](/source/Oreohelix_metcalfei)* – Black Range mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix nevadensis](/source/Oreohelix_nevadensis)* – Schell Creek mountainsnail
- *Oreohelix neomexicana - Oscura Mountain Land Snail*
- *[Oreohelix peripherica](/source/Oreohelix_peripherica)* – Deseret mountainsnail - *Oreohelix peripherica peripherica* (Ancey, 1881) - *Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis* (Binney, 1886)[5]
- *[Oreohelix pilsbryi](/source/Oreohelix_pilsbryi)* – Mineral Creek mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix pygmaea](/source/Oreohelix_pygmaea)* – pygmy mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix socorroensis](/source/Oreohelix_socorroensis)* – Socorro mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix strigosa](/source/Oreohelix_strigosa)* – rocky mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix subrudis](/source/Oreohelix_subrudis)* – subalpine mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix swopei](/source/Oreohelix_swopei)* – Morgan Creek mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix tenuistriata](/source/Oreohelix_tenuistriata)* – thin-ribbed mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix vortex](/source/Oreohelix_vortex)* – vortex banded mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix waltoni](/source/Oreohelix_waltoni)* – lava rock mountainsnail
- *[Oreohelix yavapai](/source/Oreohelix_yavapai)* – Yavapai mountainsnail

## References

1. Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). ["nameless paragraph"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17791#page/159/mode/1up). *Nautilus*. **17**: 131.

1. Nekola, Jeffrey C. (2014). ["Overview of the North American Terrestrial Gastropod Fauna"](http://biology.unm.edu/jnekola/nekola%20pdf/amb-32-225-235.pdf). *American Malacological Bulletin*. **32** (2): 225–235. [doi:10.4003/006.032.0203](https://doi.org/10.4003/006.032.0203). [S2CID 85303121](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:85303121). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20181221140146/http://biology.unm.edu/jnekola/nekola%20pdf/amb-32-225-235.pdf) 2018-12-21 at the Wayback Machine.

1. Ports, Mark A. (2004). "Biogeographic and Taxonomic Relationships Among the Mountain Snails (Gastropoda: Oreohelicidae) of the Central Great Basin". *Western North American Naturalist*. **64** (2): 145–154. [JSTOR 41717357](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41717357)

1. [*Oreohelix*.](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=77661) Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

1. Weaver, Kathleen F.; Perez-Losada, Marcos; Guralnick, Robert P.; Nelson, Ashley; Blatt, Steve; Crandall, Keith A. (2008). "Assessing the conservation status of the land snail *Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis* (Family Oreohelicidae)". *Conservation Genetics*. **9** (4): 907–916. [doi:10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y). [S2CID 24987634](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24987634)

## 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.

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