Appalachina
| Appalachina | |
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| Appalachina sayana from W. G. Binney, 1878 [2] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Subfamily: | Triodopsinae |
| Tribe: | Mesodontini |
| Genus: | Appalachina Pilsbry, 1940[1] |
Appalachina is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
Taxonomy[edit]
Henry Augustus Pilsbry[1] 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.[3]
Species[edit]
The genus Appalachina includes the following species:[3][4]
- Appalachina chilhoweensis (Lewis, 1870)
- Appalachina sayana (Pilsbry, 1906)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 704, 762.
- ^ 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 23.
- ^ a b Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 762-765.
- ^ [1] Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic database