Discula
| Discula | |
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| Discula polymorpha shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Discula R. T. Lowe, 1852[1] |
Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[2][3]
Shell description
[edit]The shell of these snails is shaped rather like a discus, or a lens, with a sharp edge around the periphery of the whorls.
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Discula include:
- Discula attrita
- Discula bulverii
- Discula calcigena
- Discula cheiranthicola
- Discula cockerelli
- Discula leacockiana
- Discula lyelliana
- Discula polymorpha
- Discula pulvinata
- Discula rotula
- Discula tabellata
- Discula tectiformis
- Discula tetrica
synonyms:
- Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824)[4]
- Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata[5]
- Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Wollastonaria oxytropis[6]
- Discula testudinalis is a synonym for Testudodiscula testudinalis
- Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)[7]
Note
[edit]The name Discula is ambiguous and also refers to a genus of fungi in the family Valsaceae to which belongs the plant pathogen dogwood anthracnose Discula destructiva.
References
[edit]- ^ Lowe R. T. (1852). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2)9: 116.
- ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25485783.
- ^ Discula R. T. Lowe, 1852. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 December 2018.
- ^ Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Hystricella bicarinata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T6724A12800659. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6724A12800659.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Neiber, M.T.; De Mattia, W.; Groh, K. (2018). "Hystricella echinulata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T6727A122351869. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T6727A122351869.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Wollastonaria oxytropis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T6728A12801442. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6728A12801442.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Wollastonaria turricula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T6723A12800477. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6723A12800477.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Cook L. M.; Pettitt C. W. A. (1979). "Shell form in Discula polymorpha". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 45 (1): 45–51. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065483.
- Robert A.D. Cameron; Laurence M. Cook; Glenn A. Goodfriend; Mary B. Seddon (2006). "Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago: change and stasis in Pleistocene to Recent Times". Malacologia. 49 (1): 25–59. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25.