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Southern flatcoil

Polygyra cereolus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1818)

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

The southern flatcoil (Polygyra cereolus) is a species in the family Polygyridae.

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Quick facts about the southern flatcoil

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the southern flatcoil live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the southern flatcoil as introduced in 3 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. United Arab Emiratesinvasive
  2. Cyprus
  3. Qatar

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the southern flatcoil endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the southern flatcoil classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. familyPolygyridae
  5. genusPolygyra
  6. SpeciesPolygyra cereolus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1818)

Synonyms Helix carpenteriana, Helix cereolus, Helix cereolus var. laminifera, Helix febigeri, Polygyra carpenteriana, Polygyra cereolus, Polygyra cereolus carpenteriana, Polygyra cereolus carpenterianus, Polygyra septemvolva var. floridana

Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • حلزون مسطح جنوبيArabic
  • Caracol espiral aplanadoSpanish
  • حلزون المسطح الجنوبيArabic

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the southern flatcoil

Other species in the same genus Polygyra.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the southern flatcoil an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the southern flatcoil as invasive in 1 country: United Arab Emirates. It lists it as introduced in 3 in all.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Southern flatcoil (Polygyra cereolus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/southern-flatcoil

MLA

“Southern flatcoil (Polygyra cereolus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/southern-flatcoil.

BibTeX
@misc{southern_flatcoil_2026,
  title = {Southern flatcoil (Polygyra cereolus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/southern-flatcoil},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}