| Oreohelicidae | |
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| Three views of a shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939 |
| Genera | |
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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).
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
References
- ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
- ↑ ALEX S. TOMPA (1979). "Studies on The Reproductive Biology of Gastropods: Part 1. The Systematic Distribution of Egg Retention in the Subclass Pulmonata (Gastropoda)". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 4 (3): 113–120. doi:10.1080/00852988.1979.10673920.
- ↑ Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780870716867.
External links
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