Discula

The shell of these snails is shaped rather like a discus, or a lens, with a sharp edge around the periphery of the whorls.

Species in the genus Discula include:

• Discula attrita (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• Discula calcigena (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• Discula cameroni Pokryszko, Groh & Teixeira, 2019
• Discula cheiranthicola (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• † Discula cockerelli (Noronha, 1923)
• Discula discina (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• Discula lyelliana (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• Discula polymorpha (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• Discula pulvinata (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• Discula tabellata (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• Discula tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
• Discula tetrica (R. T. Lowe, 1862)

Synonyms

• Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824)
• Discula bulverii (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of Callina bulverii (W. Wood, 1828) (superseded generic combination)
• Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata
• Discula leacockiana( Wollaston, 1878): synonym of Wollastonaria leacockiana (Wollaston, 1878)
• Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Wollastonaria oxytropis
• Discula rotula (R.T. Lowe, 1831): synonym of Callina rotula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• Discula testudinalis is a synonym for Testudodiscula testudinalis
• Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)

The name Discula is ambiguous and also refers to a genus of fungi in the family Valsaceae to which belongs the plant pathogen dogwood anthracnose Discula destructiva.