Millerelix peregrina (syn. Polygyra peregrina) is a species of land snail in the family Polygyridae. It is known by the common names strange many-whorled land snail[1] and white liptooth.[2] It is endemic to Arkansas in the United States, where it is found in Izard, Marion, Stone, Newton, and Searcy County in the Ozark Mountains. It occurs in dolomite cliff habitat.[1]
Strange many-whorled land snail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Polygyridae |
Genus: | Millerelix |
Species: | M. peregrina
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Binomial name | |
Millerelix peregrina (Rehder, 1932)
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