Discus (gastropod)
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A live Discus rotundatus | |
A live Discus catskillensis | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Genus: | Discus |
Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
Distribution[]
Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America.[2]
Description[]
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs.[2] The umbilicus is wide.[2]
Species[]
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
- Discus ruderatus Férussac, 1821 – type species[3]
subgenus Fitzinger, 1833
- Discus perspectivus J. C. M. von Mühlfeld, 1816[3]
- Discus rotundatus (O. F. Müller, 1774) – rotund disc[3][4]
subgenus ?
- Berry, 1955 – Lake Disc[4]
- (Harper, 1881) – saw-tooth disc, sawtooth disc[4]
- Discus catskillensis (Pilsbry, 1896) – angular disc[4]
- (Pilsbry, 1924) – channelled disc[4]
- Discus engonatus Shuttleworth, 1852 – extinct[5][6]
- Mabille, 1882[citation needed]
- Rähle, 1994[citation needed]
- Discus guerinianus R. T. Lowe, 1852[citation needed]
- J. Mabille, 1883[citation needed]
- Discus macclintocki F. C. Baker, 1928 – Iowa pleistocene snail, Pleistocene disc[4]
- Discus marmorensis H. B. Baker, 1932 – Marbled Disc[4]
- Pilsbry, 1924 – Black Mountain disc[4]
- (G. P. Deshayes, 1830) – domed disc[4]
- (R. T. Lowe, 1861)[citation needed]
- Discus retextus Shuttleworth, 1852[6]
- Discus scutula Shuttleworth, 1852[7]
- (Pilsbry, 1890) – file disc[4]
- (Pilsbry, 1890) – Striate Disc[4]
- Discus textilis Shuttleworth, 1852 – extinct[6]
- (Newcomb, 1864) – Forest Disc[4]
References[]
- ^ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88–122. Wien.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Genus summary for Discus". AnimalBase, last modified 15 january 2009, accessed 13 January 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Species in genus Discus (n=3). AnimalBase, accessed 13 January 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l "Discus Fitzinger, 1833". accessed 13 January 2011.
- ^ Alonso R. & Ibanez M. (1996). Discus engonatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 January 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167–185. Table 2 on p. 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
- ^ Alonso R. & Ibanez M. (1996). Discus scutula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Discidae
- Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
- Gastropod genera