| Oreohelicidae | |
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| Three views of a shell of Oreohelix subrudis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939 |
| Genera | |
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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).
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In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[1]
The family Oreohelicidae has no subfamilies.
The type genus is Oreohelix Pilsbry, 1904.
Genera within the family Oreohelicidae include: