Discula tabellata | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Genus: | Discula |
Species: | Discula tabellata |
Binomial name | |
Discula tabellata (R. T. Lowe, 1852) |
Discula tabellata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
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This species occurs in Madeira, Portugal.[1]
The shell of these snails is shaped like a discus, or a lens, with a sharp edge around the periphery of the whorls.
This species is endangered, as mentioned in annexes II and IV of Habitats Directive.