Discula
| Discula | |
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| Discula polymorpha shell | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Genus: | Discula R. T. Lowe, 1852[1]
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Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
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 7 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. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065483. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
- 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.
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