Helicodiscidae is a
family
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of small air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Punctoidea
Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within th ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
Genera within the family include:
* ''
Lucilla
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'' Lowe, 1852
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* Subfamily Helicodiscinae
Pilsbry, 1927
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''Chanomphalus'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
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Helicodiscus
''Helicodiscus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicodiscidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Helicodiscus'' include:
* '' Helicodiscus diadema''
* '' Helicodiscus eigenmanni ...
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Morse, 1864 - the
type
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genus
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Polygyriscus
''Polygyriscus'' is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Polygyridae. This is a monotypic genusUSFWS''Polygyriscus virginianus'' Five-year Review.January 2008. of snails conta ...
''
Pilsbry, 1948
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Speleodiscoides''
A.G. Smith, 1957
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Radiodiscus
''Radiodiscus'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.
Species
The genus ''Radiodiscus'' includes the following species:
* '' Radiodiscus amoenus'' (Thiele, 1927
Salvador R. B., C ...
'' - may belong in the
Charopidae
Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae ...
* Subfamily Stenopylinae
Thiele, 1931
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Stenopylis''
Fulton, 1914
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Zilchogyra
''Zilchogyra'' is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodiscidae. '' Zilchogyra miocenica'' is the first Miocene
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;Synonyms:
* ''Coarctatio''
F. Haas, 1945: synonym of ''Stenopylis''
Fulton, 1914 (junior synonym)
* ''Hebetodiscus''
H. B. Baker, 1929: synonym of ''Lucilla''
R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Hydrophrea''
Climo, 1974: synonym of ''Lucilla''
R. T. Lowe, 1852
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
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