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Appalachina

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Kingdom
  
Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Scientific name
  
Appalachina

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Family
  
Higher classification
  
Appalachina

Similar
  
Polygyridae, Patera, Euchemotrema, Trilobopsis, Stenotrema

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

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Taxonomy

Henry Augustus Pilsbry 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.

Species

The genus Appalachina includes the following species:

  • Appalachina sayana (Pilsbry, 1906)
  • Appalachina chilhoweensis (Lewis, 1870)
  • References

    Appalachina Wikipedia


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