Discus | |
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A live Discus rotundatus | |
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A live Discus catskillensis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Discidae |
Genus: |
Discus Fitzinger, 1833 [1] |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
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.
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs. [3] The umbilicus is wide. [3]
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus ?
Discus | |
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A live Discus rotundatus | |
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A live Discus catskillensis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Discidae |
Genus: |
Discus Fitzinger, 1833 [1] |
Synonyms [2] | |
|
Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
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.
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs. [3] The umbilicus is wide. [3]
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus ?