- Patera (snail)
Taxobox
name = Patera
image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Patera perigraptus"
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
ordo =Pulmonata
subordo =Eupulmonata
infraordo =Stylommatophora
parvordo =Sigmurethra
superfamilia =Helicoidea
familia =Polygyridae
genus = "Patera"
genus_authority = Albers 1850 [Albers, J. C. 1850. Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin, 1-262 pp.]"Patera" is a genus (or subgenus under "
Mesodon ") of terrestrial snails in the familyPolygyridae . The name is from the Latin "patera", meaning 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. [Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 748.]They are known only from the eastern
United States . [Pilsbry, Henry A. 1940. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 747-761.]The genus "Patera" contains the following species:
* "Patera appressus "
* "Patera jonesianus "
* "Patera panselenus ", Virginia bladetooth snail
* "Patera perigraptus "
* "Patera sargentianus "
* "Patera subpalliatus "
* "Patera wetherbyi "References
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