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Polygyra

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

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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Polygyra, and connects out to Mollusca, Daedalochila hippocrepis and Strange many-whorled land snail.

Vinony files it under Gastropod genera, Gastropod genera without authority reference and Polygyridae.

Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderStylommatophora
  5. FamilyPolygyridae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
909
With media
56
Family
Polygyridae
Collections
PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UF
Recorded in
United States, Italy, Cuba, Bermuda

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Polygyridae
Image
PolygyraCereolusExBnny38.jpg
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Commons category
Polygyra
taxon name
Polygyra
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Polygyra
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Encyclopedic overview

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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polygyra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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