Helicodiscidae

Family of gastropods

Helicodiscidae
A live individual of Helicodiscus parallelus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Helicodiscidae
H. B. Baker, 1927

Helicodiscidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

Genera within the family include:

  • Lucilla Lowe, 1852[1]
  • Subfamily Helicodiscinae Pilsbry, 1927
    • Chanomphalus Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879 [2]
    • Helicodiscus Morse, 1864 - the type genus
    • Polygyriscus Pilsbry, 1948
    • Speleodiscoides A.G. Smith, 1957
    • Radiodiscus - may belong in the Charopidae
  • Subfamily Stenopylinae Thiele, 1931
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

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  1. ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  2. ^ Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017
Taxon identifiers
Helicodiscidae


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