''Xenodiscula'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family
Sagdidae
Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoide ...
.
Species
There are currently two known species in the genus ''Xenodiscula'':
Xenodiscula
Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.
* ''Xenodiscula taintori
''Xenodiscula taintori'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a gastropod in the family Sagdidae. This species is found in Guatemala and Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest Sovereign sta ...
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* ''Xenodiscula venezuelensis
''Xenodiscula venezuelensis'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a gastropod in the family Sagdidae. This species is found in Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bo ...
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References
Sagdidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Gastropod genera
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