Neohelix

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

Neohelix
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
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Neohelix

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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