Discus (gastropod)

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Discus
File:Discus rotundatus.jpg
A live Discus rotundatus
A live Discus catskillensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Discidae
Genus: Discus
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Patularia Goniodiscus
  • Allerya Bourguignat, 1878
  • Charpentier, 1837
  • Gonyodiscus Eyryomphala
  • Fitzinger, 1833 Clessin, 1876
  • Delomphalus H.Beck, 1837
  • Held, 1838 Patula

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.[3] The former subgenus Canaridiscus from the Canary Islands off North Africa, which was previously allocated to Atlantica, is now raised to a full genus.

Description

Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs.[3] The umbilicus is wide.[3]

Species

Species in this genus include: subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833

subgenus ?

Species brought into synonymy[6]

References

  1. 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.
  2. "Discus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Genus summary for Discus". AnimalBase, last modified 15 January 2009, accessed 13 January 2011.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Species in genus Discus (n=3). AnimalBase, accessed 13 January 2011.
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 "Discus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  6. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Discus Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851153 on 20 June 2023