Discula
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Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails.
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[edit] Shell description
The shell of these snails is shaped like a discus, or a lens, with a sharp edge around the periphery of the whorls.
[edit] Species in the genus Discula
- Discula bicarinata
- Discula bulweri
- Discula cheiranthicola
- Discula echinulata
- Discula leacockiana
- Discula lyelliana
- Discula oxytropis
- Discula tabellata
- Discula testudinalis
- Discula tetrica
- Discula turricula
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[edit] Note
Discula is also the name of some plant pathogens belonging to the Fungi.
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