Discartemon Explained

Discartemon is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.^[1]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Discartemon includes South-East Asia.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Discartemon include:

• Discartemon afthonodontia Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon circulus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon collingeiSiriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon conicus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon deprima Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon discadentus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon discamaximus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon discus (L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
• Discartemon epipedis Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon expandus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon flavacandida Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon hypocrites van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Discartemon kotanensis Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon leptoglyphus van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Discartemon megalostraka Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon moolenbeeki Maasen, 2016
• Discartemon planus (Fulton, 1899)
• Discartemon platymorphus van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Discartemon plussensis (de Morgan, 1885)
• Discartemon roebeleni (Möllendorff, 1894)
• Discartemon sagitticallosum Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
• Discartemon sangkarensis van Benthem Jutting, 1959
• Discartemon stenostomus van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Discartemon sykesi (Collinge, 1902)
• Discartemon tonywhitteni Sutcharit, Lin & Panha, 2020
• Discartemon triancus Siriboon & Panha, 2014
• Discartemon vandermeermohri van Benthem Jutting, 1959

Species inquirendum:

• Discartemon pallgergelyi Thach, 2017 (debated synonym)

References

• Thach N.N., 2017 New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails., p. 128 pp

Further reading

• Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera Discartemon and Oophana". Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 25: 71–106. PDF.

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1856). Versuch einer Anordnung derr Heliceen nach natürlichen Gruppen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 2: 112-185

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Discartemon L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877689 on 2020-10-22
2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. .