Discidae

Discidae

Discidae

Family of gastropods

Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.[1]

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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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  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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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