Neohelix

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Neohelix
File:Neohelix dentifera.jpg
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Tribe: Triodopisini
Genus: Neohelix
H. von Ihering, 1892[1]

Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs 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

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Species within the genus Neohelix include:

References

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  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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