Polygyra

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

Polygyra
Three views of a shell of Polygyra cereolus from W. G. Binney, 1878^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Polygyridae
Genus:	Polygyra Say, 1818

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]

 

Three views of a shell of Polygyra septemvolva volvoxis.

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 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.