Patera is a genus of land snails in the family Polygyridae.
| Patera | |
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| Patera perigrapta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Subfamily: | Triodopsinae |
| Tribe: | Mesodontini |
| Genus: | Patera Albers, 1850[1] |
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.[2]
These snails are known only from the eastern United States.[3]
Species
editSpecies include:[4]
- Patera appressa – flat bladetooth
- Patera binneyana – half-lidded oval
- Patera clarki – dwarf proud globe
- Patera clarki clarki
- Patera clarki nantahala – noonday globe
- Patera clenchi – Calico Rock oval, Clench's middle-toothed land snail
- Patera indianorum – lidded oval
- Patera kiowaensis – drywoods oval
- Patera laevior – smooth bladetooth
- Patera leatherwoodi – Pedernales oval
- Patera panselenus – Virginia bladetooth
- Patera pennsylvanica – proud globelet
- Patera perigrapta – engraved bladetooth
- Patera roemeri – Texas oval
- Patera sargentiana – grand bladetooth
References
edit- ^ (in German) Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin, 1-262 pp.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, 1(2): 748.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, 1(2): 747-761.
- ^ Patera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).