flat bladetooth

Patera appressa

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae

Patera is a genus of land snails in the family Polygyridae. The name is from the Latin patera ("a saucer"), and refers to the highly depressed, saucer-like shape of the shells of these snails. In addition to flattened shells, members of the group have an imperforate umbilicus and a single tooth on the parietal wall of the aperture.

Distribution

flat bladetooth — (c) Zihao Wang, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 26United Kingdom · 8

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Zihao Wang, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPatera (gastropod), Wikipedia contributors

flat bladetooth

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