Biology:Appalachina

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Appalachina
AppalachinaSayanaExBinney23.jpg
Appalachina sayana from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1]
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Appalachina

Pilsbry, 1940[2]

Appalachina is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

Taxonomy

Henry Augustus Pilsbry[2] created what was then the subgenus Appalachina (under the genus Mesodon), a group of land snails in the family Polygyridae, for those snails with comparatively depressed (flat) shells and an open umbilicus (the center of the underside of the shell). The reproductive anatomy of these snails is important for distinguishing them from other polygyrids.[3]

Species

The genus Appalachina includes the following species:[3][4]

References

  1. Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 23.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 704, 762.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 762-765.
  4. [1] Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database

Wikidata ☰ Q3077814 entry