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Polygyra
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polygyra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
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Three views of a shell of Polygyra cereolus from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Polygyridae |
Subfamily: | Polygyrinae |
Genus: | Polygyra Say, 1818 |
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The two-IUCN listed taxa, Polygyra hippocrepis and Polygyra peregrina, are now usually named Daedalochila hippocrepis and Millerelix peregrina.