''Sicradiscus mansuyi'' is a

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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

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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 ...

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in the family

Plectopylidae Plectopylidae is a taxonomic family of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopylidae Möllendorff, 1898. Accessed through: Wor ...

Distribution

The distribution of ''Sicradiscus mansuyi'' includes

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and

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in Northeast

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.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. . It was also found in

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very close to the Vietnamese border within

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. The type locality is Hạ Lang in the eastern part of

, in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

Description

The width of the shell is 6.7–7.0 mm. The height of the shell is 3.4–3.9 mm.

Ecology

It is a ground-dwelling species as all other plectopylid snails in Vietnam. It co-occur with other plectopylids in Vietnam: with '' Gudeodiscus cyrtochilus'', '' Gudeodiscus giardi'' and with '' Gudeodiscus suprafilaris''. '' Gudeodiscus phlyarius'' live at geographically close sites to ''Sicradiscus mansuyi''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q28432427 Plectopylidae Gastropods described in 1908