Polygyriscus virginianus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Punctoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Tectipleura Subcohors: Panpulmonata Superordo: Eupulmonata Ordo: Stylommatophora Subordo: Helicina Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Punctoidea

Familia: Helicodiscidae
Genus: Polygyriscus
Species: P. virginianus

Name

Polygyriscus virginiana (P.R. Burch, 1947: 40), as Polygyra virginiana

Type locality: found in sifted soil from weathered Elbrook limestone (Cambrian) in a cut on a country road in Pulaski County, opposite the city of Radford, Montgomery County, Virginia, U.S.A.

References

• Burch, P.R. 1947. Polygyra virginiana, a new species from Virginia. The Nautilus 61 (2): 40–41, pl. 2, 3.
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 2(2). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3 : i-xlvii + 521-1113 pp.
• Solem, A. 1975. Polygyriscus virginianus (Burch, 1947), a helicodiscid land snail (Pulmonata: Helicodiscidae). The Nautilus 89 (3): 80–86.