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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaStylommatophoraPristilomatidaeParavitrea

Dentate Supercoil
Paravitrea multidentata (A. Binney, 1840)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Stylommatophora
Family Pristilomatidae
Genus Paravitrea
Species Paravitrea multidentata (A. Binney, 1840)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Trogloxene
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from one county in Tennessee.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Tennessee

Counties

Tennessee
Fentress

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

National ranks

Canada
NU
United States
N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Nova Scotia
SU Unrankable
Quebec
SNR Unranked
New Brunswick
SU Unrankable
Ontario
S2 Imperiled
Michigan
SNR Unranked
Wisconsin
S2 Imperiled
Mississippi
SNR Unranked
ME
SNR Unranked
Pennsylvania
S4 Apparently Secure
Louisiana
SX Presumed Extirpated
West Virginia
S5 Secure
Virginia
S4 Apparently Secure
Connecticut
SNR Unranked
New York
SNR Unranked
Tennessee
S4 Apparently Secure
North Carolina
S2 Imperiled
Arkansas
SNR Unranked
Vermont
SNR Unranked
Maryland
SU Unrankable
Indiana
SNR Unranked
Alabama
S2 Imperiled
NH
SNR Unranked
Kentucky
S5 Secure
Ohio
SNR Unranked
Massachusetts
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • 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.

How to cite this account

Paravitrea multidentata (A. Binney, 1840). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2777. https://cavebiology.org/species/paravitrea-multidentata/ (accessed 6 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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