Black Hills Mountainsnail

Oreohelix strigosa cooperi

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oreohelicidae

Oreohelix cooperi, also known as Cooper’s rocky mountainsnail or the Black Hills mountainsnail, is a critically endangered species of land snail that lives in the Rocky Mountain Ranges and Great Plains of North America. Oreohelix cooperi is a hermaphroditic land snail that possesses low adult vagility and dispersal larvae stage. Due to this spatial restriction, the decreased ability for O.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 16Canada · 5

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Dustin Snider, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionOreohelix cooperi, Wikipedia contributors

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