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''Xenodiscula'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
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 ...
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Species

There are currently two known species in the genus ''Xenodiscula'':Xenodiscula
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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 {{Sagdidae-stub