Discus (gastropod)

Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.

Discus
A live Discus rotundatus
A live Discus catskillensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Discidae
Genus: Discus
Fitzinger, 1833[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America.[2]

Description

Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs.[2] The umbilicus is wide.[2]

Species

Species in this genus include:

subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus ?

References

  1. Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88–122. Wien.
  2. "Genus summary for Discus". AnimalBase, last modified 15 january 2009, accessed 13 January 2011.
  3. "Species in genus Discus (n=3). AnimalBase, accessed 13 January 2011.
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  6. Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167–185. Table 2 on p. 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
  7. Alonso, M.R.; Ibáñez, M.; Groh, K. (2017). "Atlantica scutula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T6738A101390175. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T6738A101390175.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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