Polygyra

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Polygyra
File:PolygyraCereolusExBnny38.jpg
Three views of a shell of Polygyra cereolus
from W. G. Binney, 1878[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Subfamily: Polygyrinae
Genus: Polygyra
Say, 1818

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

The two-IUCN listed taxa, Polygyra hippocrepis and Polygyra peregrina, are now usually named Daedalochila hippocrepis and Millerelix peregrina.

Species

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Species and subspecies in the genus Polygyra:

File:PolygyraSeptemvolvaVolvoxis.jpg
Three views of a shell of Polygyra septemvolva volvoxis.

References

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  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 38.
  2. ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 591-607.

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