Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Punctoidea Rank Family | Phylum Mollusca Scientific name Oreohelicidae | |
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Lower classifications Oreohelix, Oreohelix carinifera, Radiocentrum, Vortex banded mountain snail | ||
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).
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Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).
Oreohelix, the type genus, is ovoviviparous. Radiocentrum, a subgenus of Oreohelix, is oviparous(Tompa, 1979). The group as a whole generally lacks any apertural barriers or teeth and displays wide variety of shell morphologies (Burke & Leonard 2014).
Genera
The family Oreohelicidae has no subfamilies.
The type genus is Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904.
Genera within the family Oreohelicidae include:
References
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