Boulder pile mountain snail

Boulder pile mountain snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Oreohelix
Species: O. jugalis
Binomial name
Oreohelix jugalis
(Hemphill, 1890)

The boulder pile mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix jugalis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Roth B. (1996). Oreohelix jugalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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