Discidae is a
taxonomic
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
family 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 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 superfamily
Punctoidea.
Genera
The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:
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Anguispira
''Anguispira'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamil ...
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Morse, 1864
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Calogoniodiscus
''Calogoniodiscus'' is an extinct genus of gastropods 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 n ...
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Pfeffer, 1930
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Canaridiscus''
Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011[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]
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Coxiola''
Pfeffer, 1930
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Discus''
Fitzinger, 1833
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Manganellia''
Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
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Protodiscus''
Solem & Yochelson, 1979
;Synonyms:
* ''Zonodiscus''
Pilsbry, 1948 [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. ] - or as a subgenus of ''Anguispira'': synonym of ''Anguispira (Zonodiscus)''
Pilsbry, 1948, represented as ''
Anguispira
''Anguispira'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamil ...
''
Morse, 1864
References
External links
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