Discidae
Family of gastropods
Discidae | |
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A live individual of Discus rotundatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
Family: | Discidae Thiele, 1931 (1866) |
Synonyms | |
Patulinae Tryon, 1866 Gonyodiscinae A. J. Wagner, 1928 Anguispiridae MacMillan, 1955 (n.a.) |
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.[1]
Genera
The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:
- Anguispira Morse, 1864
- † Calogoniodiscus Pfeffer, 1930
- Canaridiscus Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011[2]
- † Coxiola Pfeffer, 1930
- Discus Fitzinger, 1833
- † Manganellia Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
- † Protodiscus Solem & Yochelson, 1979
- Synonyms
- Zonodiscus Pilsbry, 1948[3] - or as a subgenus of Anguispira: synonym of Anguispira (Zonodiscus) Pilsbry, 1948, represented as Anguispira Morse, 1864
References
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- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Yanes Y., Holyoak G. A., Holyoak D. T., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2011). "A new Discidae subgenus and two new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the Canary Islands". Zootaxa 2911: 43-49. PDF.
- ^ Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Volume 2, Part 2. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph No. 3.
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