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

Neohelix
A live individual of Neohelix dentifera
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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

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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.