''Hunyadiscus'' 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
Plectopylidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hunyadiscus Páll-Gergely, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877675 on 2021-03-09]
Species
Species in the genus ''Hunyadiscus'' include:
* ''
Hunyadiscus andersoni
''Hunyadiscus andersoni'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Hunyadiscus andersoni'' includes Kachin State and Mandalay Region ...
''
(W. T. Blanford, 1869)
* ''
Hunyadiscus saurini''
Páll-Gergely, 2016
* ''
Hunyadiscus tigrina''
Páll-Gergely, 2018
References
External links
Páll-Gergely B., Muratov I.V. & Asami T. (2016). The family Plectopylidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Laos with the description of two new genera and a new species. ZooKeys. 592: 1-26
Plectopylidae
Taxa named by William Henry Benson
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