Marine Species Traits - Polygyratia J. E. Gray, 1847

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Polygyratia J. E. Gray, 1847

AphiaID

996655 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:996655)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Helix polygyrata Born, 1778 accepted as Polygyratia polygyrata (Born, 1778) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Scolodontidae H. B. Baker, 1925

Original name

Polygyratia J. E. Gray, 1847

Synonymised names

Helix (Ophiogyra) Albers, 1850 · unaccepted (objective junior synonym)

Ophiogyra Albers, 1850 · unaccepted (objective junior synonym)

Polygyratia (Polygyratia) J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Streptaxis (Polygyratia) J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > superseded rank

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Species Polygyratia polygyrata (Born, 1778)
Subgenus Polygyratia (Polygyratia) J. E. Gray, 1847 accepted as Polygyratia J. E. Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
1. Species Polygyratia (Polygyratia) charybdis (Mörch, 1852) accepted as Polygyratia polygyrata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
2. Species Polygyratia (Polygyratia) polygyrata (Born, 1778) accepted as Polygyratia polygyrata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Subgenus Polygyratia (Ridleya) Ancey, 1901 accepted as Ridleyconcha Christensen, 2020 (unaccepted > junior homonym)
1. Species Polygyratia (Ridleya) quinquelirata (E. A. Smith, 1890) accepted as Ridleyconcha quinquelirata (E. A. Smith, 1890) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Polygyratia affinis Pilsbry, 1900 accepted as Systrophia affinis (Pilsbry, 1900) (original combination)
Species Polygyratia charybdis (Mörch, 1852) accepted as Polygyratia polygyrata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Polygyratia heligmoida (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Systrophia heligmoida (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Polygyratia reyrei (Souverbie, 1858) accepted as Entodina reyrei (Souverbie, 1858) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Polygyratia sargenti Pilsbry, 1900 accepted as Systrophia sargenti (Pilsbry, 1900) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Polygyratia stenostrepta (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) accepted as Systrophia stenostrepta (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 173 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polygyratia J. E. Gray, 1847. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996655 on 2025-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2017-06-15 07:29:09Z

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Bank, Ruud

2019-01-12 20:26:50Z

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Köhler, Frank

2020-03-15 22:51:18Z

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Köhler, Frank

2023-03-10 18:39:42Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 173 [details]

original description (of Helix (Ophiogyra) Albers, 1850) Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11965983
page(s): 90 [details]

taxonomy source Salvador, B. R.; Cavallari, D. C. (2020). Taxonomy and distribution of enigmatic “helicoid” Polygyratia Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96(1): 91-101., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.96.51047 [details]

basis of record Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065., available online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5354113/#
page(s): 121 [details]

additional source Roosen, M. T.; Salvador, R. B.; Breure, A. S. (2025). Revision of the genera of Scolodontidae, part 3: Entodina Ancey, 1887, Keranella gen. nov., Martinella Jousseaume, 1887, †Patagocharopa Miquel & P.E. Rodriguez, 2016, Polygyratia Gray, 1847, Ridleyconcha Christensen, 2020, Smenodonta gen. nov., Systrophia L. Pfeiffer, 1855, and Zilchistrophia Weyrauch, 1960. Journal of Conchology. 45(3): 430-449., available online at https://doi.org/10.61733/jconch/4536
page(s): 437 [details] Available for editors

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