The Appalachina sayana, also known as the spike-lip crater, is a species of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
| Appalachina sayana | |
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| Appalachina sayana from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Appalachina |
| Species: | A. sayana
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| Binomial name | |
| Appalachina sayana (Pilsbry, 1906)
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Distribution and conservation status
editThis species lives in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada and was assessed as not at risk by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).[2]
References
edit- ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 23.
- ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 35.