Oreohelix idahoensis

Costate 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. idahoensis
Binomial name
Oreohelix idahoensis
(Hemphill, 1890)

The costate mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix idahoensis 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). Oreohelixi idahoensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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