''Discartemon'' is a
genus of 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 ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
Stre ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877689 on 2020-10-22]
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Discartemon'' includes South-East Asia.
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '' Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 160: 1-16. .]
Species
Species within the genus ''Discartemon'' include:
* ''
Discartemon afthonodontia
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon circulus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon collingei
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon conicus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon deprima
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Regist ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon discadentus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon discamaximus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
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Discartemon discus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
* ''
Discartemon epipedis''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon expandus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon flavacandida
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon hypocrites
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon kotanensis''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon leptoglyphus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon megalostraka''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon moolenbeeki''
Maasen, 2016
* ''
Discartemon planus''
(Fulton, 1899)
* ''
Discartemon platymorphus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon plussensis''
(de Morgan, 1885)
* ''
Discartemon roebeleni''
(Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Discartemon sagitticallosum''
Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
* ''
Discartemon sangkarensis''
van Benthem Jutting, 1959
* ''
Discartemon stenostomus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon sykesi
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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(Collinge, 1902)
* ''
Discartemon tonywhitteni
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
* ''
Discartemon triancus
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
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Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon vandermeermohri
''Discartemon'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
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van Benthem Jutting, 1959
;Species inquirendum:
* ''Discartemon pallgergelyi''
Thach, 2017 (debated synonym)
References
* Thach N.N. , 2017 New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails., p. 128 pp
Further reading
* Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera ''Discartemon'' and ''Oophana''". ''
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore. It covers the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of Southeast As ...
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External links
Pfeiffer, L. (1856). Versuch einer Anordnung derr Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 2: 112-185
Streptaxidae
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