Neohelix is a genus (or a subgenus under Triodopsis) of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
Neohelix | |
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A live individual of Neohelix dentifera | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Polygyridae |
Tribe: | Triodopisini |
Genus: | Neohelix H. von Ihering, 1892[1] |
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
editSpecies within the genus Neohelix include:
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