- Discula
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Discula Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group SigmurethraSuperfamily: Helicoidea Family: Hygromiidae Genus: Discula
R. T. Lowe, 1852[1]Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Contents
Shell description
The shell of these snails is shaped rather like a discus, or a lens, with a sharp edge around the periphery of the whorls.
Species
Species in the genus Discula include:
- Discula attrita
- Discula bulweri
- Discula calcigena
- Discula cheiranthicola
- Discula cockerelli
- Discula leacockiana
- Discula lyelliana
- Discula polymorpha
- Discula pulvinata
- Discula rotula
- Discula tabellata
- Discula tectiformis
- Discula testudinalis
- Discula tetrica
synonyms:
- Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824)[2]
- Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata[3]
- Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Hystricella oxytropis[4]
- Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)[5]
Note
The name Discula is ambiguous and also refers to a genus of fungi in the family Valsaceae to which belongs the plant pathogen dogwood anthracnose Discula destructiva.
References
- ^ Lowe R. T. (1852). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2)9: 116.
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Hystricella bicarinata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 June 2010.
- ^ Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella echinulata". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
- ^ Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella oxytropis". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 June 2010.
- ^ Seddon M. B. (1996). "Hystricella turricula". In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 May 2010.
Further reading
- Cook L. M.& Pettitt C. W. A. (1979). "Shell form in Discula polymorpha". Journal of molluscan Studies 45 (1): 45–51. http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/45/1/45. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- Robert A.D. Cameron, Laurence M. Cook, Glenn A. Goodfriend, Mary B. Seddon (2006). "Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago : change and stasis in Pleistocene to Recent Times". Malacologia 49 (1): 25–59. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25?cookieSet=1&journalCode=mala.
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