Boulder pile mountain snail

The boulder pile mountain snail, scientific name Oreohelix jugalis 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.

Boulder pile 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. jugalis
Binomial name
Oreohelix jugalis
(Hemphill, 1890)

References
  1. Roth B. (1996). Oreohelix jugalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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