Engraved Bladetooth
Patera perigrapta (Pilsbry, 1894)
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Mollusca |
| Class | Gastropoda |
| Order | Stylommatophora |
| Family | Polygyridae |
| Genus | Patera |
| Species | Patera perigrapta (Pilsbry, 1894) |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Trogloxene
- Realm
- Terrestrial
Distribution
Range
Known from 11 counties across three states.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
Counties
- Alabama
- Blount, Jackson
- Georgia
- Chattooga, Dade
- Tennessee
- Fentress, Franklin, Grundy, Marion, Overton, Sequatchie, Warren
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G5 Secure
National ranks
- United States
- N5 Secure
Subnational ranks
- South Carolina
- SNR Unranked
- Alabama
- SNR Unranked
- North Carolina
- S5 Secure
- Louisiana
- SNR Unranked
- Tennessee
- S5 Secure
- Georgia
- SNR Unranked
- Arkansas
- SNR Unranked
- Mississippi
- SNR Unranked
- Missouri
- S1 Critically Imperiled
State and federal status
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
References
- Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 pp.
- Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
- Lewis, J.J. & Lewis, S.L. 2005. Inventory of the subterranean fauna of Tims Ford State Park, Franklin County, Tennessee. Tennesee Natural Heritage Program, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 28 pp.
- Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
- Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125
How to cite this account
Patera perigrapta (Pilsbry, 1894). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2782. https://cavebiology.org/species/patera-perigrapta/ (accessed 7 September 2026).
Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.
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