Helicodiscidae is a
family
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of small air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Punctoidea
Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the cl ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
Genera within the family include:
* ''
Lucilla
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive brother Lucius Verus ...
'' Lowe, 1852
[ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. nnotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics. '']Malacologica Bohemoslovaca
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'', Suppl. 1: 1-37
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* Subfamily Helicodiscinae
Pilsbry, 1927
**
''Chanomphalus'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
** ''
Helicodiscus''
Morse, 1864 - the
type genus
** ''
Polygyriscus''
Pilsbry, 1948
** ''
Speleodiscoides''
A.G. Smith, 1957
** ''
Radiodiscus'' - may belong in the
Charopidae
Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae Hutt ...
* Subfamily Stenopylinae
Thiele, 1931
** ''
Stenopylis''
Fulton, 1914
** ''
Zilchogyra''
;Synonyms:
* ''Coarctatio''
F. Haas, 1945: synonym of ''Stenopylis''
Fulton, 1914 (junior synonym)
* ''Hebetodiscus''
H. B. Baker, 1929: synonym of ''Lucilla''
R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Hydrophrea''
Climo, 1974: synonym of ''Lucilla''
R. T. Lowe, 1852
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
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