''Spelaeodiscus'' is a

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of very small air-breathing

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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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s in the family

Spelaeodiscidae Spelaeodiscidae is a family of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The family Spelaeodiscidae has ...

. This is the

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of the family Spelaeodiscidae.

Species

The genus ''Spelaeodiscus'' contains the following species: * '' Spelaeodiscus albanicus'' (Wagner, 1914)"Species in genus ''Spelaeodiscus''"
(n=7).

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, accessed 24 April 2011. * '' Spelaeodiscus bulgaricus'' (Subai & Dedov, 2008) * '' Spelaeodiscus dejongi'' Gittenberger, 1969 * '' Spelaeodiscus hauffeni'' (Schmidt, 1855) - type species * '' Spelaeodiscus obodensis'' Bole, 1965 * '' Spelaeodiscus triarius'' (Rossmässler, 1839) - synonym: ''Spelaeodiscus tatricus'' Hazay, 1883 * '' Spelaeodiscus unidentatus'' Bole, 1961

References

External links

* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=620 Spelaeodiscidae Taxa named by Spiridon Brusina Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Stylommatophora-stub