Biology:Polygyra
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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| Three views of a shell of Polygyra cereolus from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Polygyra Say, 1818
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Polygyra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae.
The two-IUCN listed taxa, Polygyra hippocrepis and Polygyra peregrina, are now usually named Daedalochila hippocrepis and Millerelix peregrina.
Species
Species and subspecies in the genus Polygyra:
- Polygyra cereolus
- Polygyra cereolus floridana
- Polygyra septemvolva
- Polygyra septemvolva febigeri
- Polygyra septemvolva volvoxis[2]
References
- ↑ 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 38.
- ↑ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 591-607.
Wikidata ☰ Q3075315 entry
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