Oreohelicidae
{{Short description|Family of gastropods}}
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| image = OreohelixSubridis1.jpg
| image_caption = Three views of a shell of Oreohelix subrudis
| taxon = Oreohelicidae
| authority = Pilsbry, 1939
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms =
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Oreohelicidae is a family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): [https://books.google.com/books?id=WlvX-9Wt0toC&hl The biology of terrestrial molluscs]. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, {{ISBN|0-85199-318-4}}. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Oreohelix, the type genus, is ovoviviparous. Radiocentrum, a subgenus of Oreohelix, is oviparous(Tompa, 1979).{{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/00852988.1979.10673920 | journal = Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia| volume =4|year= 1979 | issue= 3|title=Studies on The Reproductive Biology of Gastropods: Part 1. The Systematic Distribution of Egg Retention in the Subclass Pulmonata (Gastropoda) | author=ALEX S. TOMPA|pages= 113–120| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/316500}} The group as a whole generally lacks any apertural barriers or teeth and displays wide variety of shell morphologies (Burke & Leonard 2014).{{Cite book | url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24534 | isbn=9780870716867 | title=Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest | year=2013 | publisher=Oregon State University Press }}
Genera
The family Oreohelicidae has no subfamilies.
The type genus is Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904.
Genera within the family Oreohelicidae include:
- Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904
- Radiocentrum Pilsbry, 1905
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