| Patera clarki nantahala | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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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]
- ^ a b Clench, W. J. & G. S. Banks. July 23, 1932. Descriptions of some land snails of southwestern North Carolina. The Nautilus, Volume 46, Number 1: 14-19.
- ^ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. July 3, 1978. Final Determination that Seven Eastern U.S. Land Snails are Endangered or Threatened Species