Discidae

Family of gastropods

Discidae

A live individual of Discus rotundatus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Heterobranchia
Order:  | Stylommatophora
Superfamily:  | Punctoidea
Family:  | Discidae
Thiele, 1931 (1866)
Synonyms

Patulinae Tryon, 1866 Gonyodiscinae A. J. Wagner, 1928 Anguispiridae MacMillan, 1955 (n.a.)

Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.[1]

## Genera

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The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:

* Anguispira Morse, 1864
* † Calogoniodiscus Pfeffer, 1930
* Canaridiscus Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011[2]
* † Coxiola Pfeffer, 1930
* Discus Fitzinger, 1833
* † Manganellia Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
* † Protodiscus Solem & Yochelson, 1979

Synonyms

* Zonodiscus Pilsbry, 1948[3] \- or as a subgenus of Anguispira: synonym of Anguispira (Zonodiscus) Pilsbry, 1948, represented as Anguispira Morse, 1864

## References

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Wikispecies has information related to Discidae.

1. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
2. ^ Yanes Y., Holyoak G. A., Holyoak D. T., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2011). "A new Discidae subgenus and two new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the Canary Islands". Zootaxa 2911: 43-49. PDF.
3. ^ Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Volume 2, Part 2. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph No. 3.

Taxon identifiers

Discidae|

* Wikidata: Q1515921
* Wikispecies: Discidae
* BOLD: 287502
* CoL: 7NHB6
* EoL: 2636
* EPPO: 1ENDDF
* GBIF: 6543
* iNaturalist: 85741
* IRMNG: 104047
* ITIS: 77381
* NBN: NHMSYS0001701990
* NCBI: 318203
* Open Tree of Life: 7647809
* WoRMS: 851151

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