''Anguispira'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
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mollusks
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in the family
Discidae
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.
Genera
The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:
* ''Anguispira'' Morse, ...
, the disk snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Anguispira Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995314 on 2022-07-12]
Species
Species:
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Anguispira alabama''
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Anguispira alternata''
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Anguispira cumberlandiana''
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Anguispira fergusoni''
*''
Anguispira holroydensis''
*''
Anguispira jessica''
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Anguispira knoxensis''
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Anguispira kochi''
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Anguispira macneilli''
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Anguispira mordax''
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Anguispira nimapuna''
*''
Anguispira picta'' =
painted snake-coiled forest snail
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Anguispira rugoderma''
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Anguispira russelli''
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Anguispira stihleri''
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Anguispira strongyloides''
;Synonyms:
* ''Anguispira clarki''
Vanatta, 1924: synonym of ''Anguispira fergusoni''
(Bland, 1862)
* † ''Anguispira simplex''
Russell, 1955: synonym of † ''
Haplotrema simplex''
(Russell, 1955) (new combination)
* ''Anguispira strigosa''
(A. Gould, 1846): synonym of ''
Oreohelix strigosa''
(A. Gould, 1846) (unaccepted combination)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
Discidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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