Pleurodiscus

Pleurodiscus
Shells of Pleurodiscus balmei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pleurodiscidae
Wenz, 1923
Genus: Pleurodiscus
Wenz, 1919[1]
species

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Pleurodiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Pleurodiscus is the only genus in the family Pleurodiscidae.

Species

Species within the genus Pleurodiscus include:

References

  1. ^ (German) Wenz, W. (1919). "Zur Systematik tertiärer Land- und Süßwasser-Gastropoden". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 51(2): 76-79. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. ^ a b c d "Species in genus Pleurodiscus" (n=4). AnimalBase, accessed 15 February 2010.

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