Patera clarki nantahala | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Polygyridae |
Genus: | Patera |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. c. nantahala
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Trinomial name | |
Patera clarki nantahala | |
Synonyms | |
Polygyra (Triodopsis) nantahala[1] |
Patera clarki nantahala, the noonday globe, is a subspecies of Patera clarki, a land snail in the family Polygyridae. It is endemic to North Carolina in the United States.
The name nantahala is a Cherokee word which means noonday. This subspecies was given this name because the snail lives in a deep gorge where the sunshine does not reach the ground until the middle of the day.[2]