Neohelix

Neohelix
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Neohelix
von Ihering, 1892[1]

Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.

The shells of Neohelix are not distinguishable from those of the genus Mesodon, but the reproductive anatomy of the two groups of snails is different.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Neohelix include:

References

  1. ↑ von Ihering H. (1892). Zeitsch. fur Wissensch. Zool. 54: 482.
  2. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1940). "Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico)". Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 834.


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