Discidae Explained

Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.

Genera

The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:

• Anguispira Morse, 1864
• † Calogoniodiscus Pfeffer, 1930
• Canaridiscus Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011^[1]
• † Coxiola Pfeffer, 1930
• Discus Fitzinger, 1833
• † Manganellia Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
• † Protodiscus Solem & Yochelson, 1979

Synonyms:

• Zonodiscus Pilsbry, 1948^[2] - or as a subgenus of Anguispira: synonym of Anguispira (Zonodiscus) Pilsbry, 1948, represented as Anguispira Morse, 1864

Notes and References

1. Yanes Y., Holyoak G. A., Holyoak D. T., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2011). "A new Discidae subgenus and two new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from the Canary Islands". Zootaxa 2911: 43-49. PDF.
2. Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Volume 2, Part 2. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph No. 3.