Helicodiscidae
| Helicodiscidae | |
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| A live individual of Helicodiscus parallelus | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Helicodiscidae H. B. Baker, 1927
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| Type genus | |
| Helicodiscus | |
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Stenopylinae Thiele, 1931 | |
Helicodiscidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
The family Helicodiscidae has no subfamilies.
Genera within the family include:
- Chanomphalus [1]
- Helicodiscus - the type genus
- Lucilla Lowe, 1852[2]
- Polygyriscus
- Radiodiscus - may belong in the Charopidae
- Stenopylis
- Zilchogyra
References
- ^ Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
- ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
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