Helicodiscidae
Sign in to saveHelicodiscidae 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).
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyHelicodiscidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Helicodiscidae
- Collections
- AUM, ALMNH, INHS, USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Honduras, Madagascar
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- Parent taxon
- Punctoidea
- Image
- Helicodiscus parallelus.jpg
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- Helicodiscidae
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- taxon name
- Helicodiscidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Helicodiscidae
- taxon common name
- veksthusdiskossnegler
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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 Subfamily Helicodiscinae Pilsbry, 1927 Chanomphalus Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879 Helicodiscus Morse, 1864 - the type genus Polygyriscus Pilsbry, 1948 Speleodiscoides A.G. Smith, 1957 Radiodiscus - may belong in the Charopidae Subfamily Stenopylinae Thiele, 1931 Stenopylis Fulton, 1914 Zilchogyra 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
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