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Neohelix
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
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Neohelix

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

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.