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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
InfraOrdo: Pupilloidei
Superfamilia: Pupilloidea

Familia: Valloniidae
Subfamilia: Valloniinae
Genus: Planogyra
Species: P. asteriscus – P. borealis – P. clappi
Name

Planogyra Morse, 1864

Type Species: Helix asteriscus Morse, 1864: 24
References
Primary references

Morse, E.S. 1864. Observations on the Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine: including a Catalogue of all the Species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the State. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History 1: 1–63. BHL Reference page.
Pilsbry H. A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), 2(2). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3, 2 (2): 1037.

Planogyra is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.
Species

Species within the genus Planogyra include:

Planogyra asteriscus (E. S. Morse, 1857)
Planogyra clappi

References

Morse E. S. (1864). J. Portland Soc. nat. Hist. 1: 24.

Further reading
"Planogyra asteriscus (morse)" (PDF). Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2008-09-19.

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