Vortex banded mountain snail

The vortex banded mountain snail or whorled mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix vortex, 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.

Vortex banded 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. vortex
Binomial name
Oreohelix vortex

References
  1. Roth, B. (1996). "Oreohelix vortex". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T15467A4601963. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15467A4601963.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.


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