''Gudeodiscus francoisi'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

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 ...

, a 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 ...

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in the family Plectopylidae. This species was described by French zoologist Pierre Marie Henri Fischer (1865-1916) (son of Paul-Henri Fischer) in 1898.

Distribution

The distribution of ''Gudeodiscus francoisi'' includes

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

.Páll-Gergely B., Hunyadi A., Ablett J., Luong Van H., Naggs F. & Asami T. (2015). "Systematics of the family Plectopylidae in Vietnam with additional information on Chinese taxa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)". ''ZooKeys'' 473: 1–118. .

Ecology

It is a ground-dwelling species as all other plectopylid snails in Vietnam. It co-occur with other plectopylids in Vietnam: with '' Gudeodiscus anceyi'', ''

Gudeodiscus giardi ''Gudeodiscus giardi'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae. This species was described by French zoologist Pierre Marie Henri Fischer (1865-1916) (son of Paul-Henri Fis ...

''. ''

Gudeodiscus phlyarius ''Gudeodiscus phlyarius'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae. ''Gudeodiscus phlyarius'' is the type species of the genus ''Gudeodiscus''. Distribution The distributi ...

'' and ''

Gudeodiscus suprafilaris ''Gudeodiscus suprafilaris'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae. Distribution The distribution of ''Gudeodiscus suprafilaris'' includes List of non- ...

'' live at geographically close sites to ''Gudeodiscus francoisi''.

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Plectopylidae Gastropods described in 1898 {{Pulmonata-stub