Biology:Discula
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Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.[1][2]
Shell description
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
Species in the genus Discula include:
- Discula attrita (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Discula calcigena (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Discula cameroni Pokryszko, Groh & Teixeira, 2019
- Discula cheiranthicola (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- † Discula cockerelli (Noronha, 1923)
- Discula discina (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Discula lyelliana (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Discula polymorpha (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Discula pulvinata (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Discula tabellata (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
- Discula tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
- Discula tetrica (R. T. Lowe, 1862)
- Synonyms
- Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824)[3]
- Discula bulverii (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of Callina bulverii (W. Wood, 1828) (superseded generic combination)
- Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata[4]
- Discula leacockiana( Wollaston, 1878): synonym of Wollastonaria leacockiana (Wollaston, 1878)
- Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Wollastonaria oxytropis[5]
- Discula rotula (R.T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Callina rotula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
- Discula testudinalis is a synonym for Testudodiscula testudinalis
- Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)[6]
Note
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
- ↑ 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. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6724A12800659.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6724/12800659. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ Neiber, M.T.; De Mattia, W.; Groh, K. (2018). "Hystricella echinulata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T6727A122351869.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6727/122351869. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Wollastonaria oxytropis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6728A12801442.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6728/12801442. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Wollastonaria turricula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6723A12800477.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6723/12800477. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
Further reading
- 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.
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