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The problem there in the Appalachians, is a plethora of candidates. It's a polygyrid (Family Polygyridae) and looks like an immature. (You need a shot of the aperture for most snail ids. Get your nice activity shots, then poke it in the nose and when it withdraws, get a shoot looking straight into the aperture.) That's a species of either the genus Patera (Polygyrinae) or the genus Xolotrema (Triodopsinae), which are convergent forms with a lot of lookalike species between the two genera, even though they belong to different subfamilies! A textbook case of ecologically-driven convergence.

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