''Discartemon'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877689 on 2020-10-22]
Distribution
The distribution of the genus ''Discartemon'' includes South-East Asia.
[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Discartemon'' include:
* ''
Discartemon afthonodontia''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon circulus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon collingei''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon conicus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon deprima''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon discadentus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon discamaximus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon discus''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
* ''
Discartemon epipedis''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon expandus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon flavacandida''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon hypocrites''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon kotanensis''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon leptoglyphus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon megalostraka''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon moolenbeeki''
Maasen, 2016
* ''
Discartemon planus''
(Fulton, 1899)
* ''
Discartemon platymorphus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon plussensis''
(de Morgan, 1885)
* ''
Discartemon roebeleni''
(Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Discartemon sagitticallosum''
Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
* ''
Discartemon sangkarensis''
van Benthem Jutting, 1959
* ''
Discartemon stenostomus''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Discartemon sykesi''
(Collinge, 1902)
* ''
Discartemon tonywhitteni''
Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
* ''
Discartemon triancus''
Siriboon & Panha, 2014
* ''
Discartemon vandermeermohri''
van Benthem Jutting, 1959
;Species inquirendum:
* ''Discartemon pallgergelyi''
Thach, 2017 (debated synonym)
References
* Thach N.N. , 2017 New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails., p. 128 pp
Further reading
* Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera ''Discartemon'' and ''Oophana''". ''
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum'' 25: 71–106
PDF
External links
Pfeiffer, L. (1856). Versuch einer Anordnung derr Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 2: 112-185
Streptaxidae
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