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Discidae
Family of gastropods
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.
01Genera
The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:
- Anguispira Morse, 1864
- † Calogoniodiscus Pfeffer, 1930
- Canaridiscus Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011
- † Coxiola Pfeffer, 1930
- Discus Fitzinger, 1833
- † Manganellia Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
- † Protodiscus Solem & Yochelson, 1979
- Synonyms
- Zonodiscus Pilsbry, 1948 - or as a subgenus of Anguispira: synonym of Anguispira (Zonodiscus) Pilsbry, 1948, represented as Anguispira Morse, 1864
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