Discula
Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.
Shell description
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
Species in the genus Discula include:
- Discula attrita
- Discula bulverii
- Discula calcigena
- Discula cheiranthicola
- Discula cockerelli
- Discula leacockiana
- Discula lyelliana
- Discula polymorpha
- Discula pulvinata
- Discula rotula
- Discula tabellata
- Discula tectiformis
- Discula tetrica
synonyms:
- Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824)
- Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata
- Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Wollastonaria oxytropis
- Discula testudinalis is a synonym for Testudodiscula testudinalis
- Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
Note
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.
References
Further reading
- Cook L. M.; Pettitt C. W. A. (1979). "Shell form in Discula polymorpha". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 45 (1): 45–51. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065483.
- Robert A.D. Cameron; Laurence M. Cook; Glenn A. Goodfriend; Mary B. Seddon (2006). "Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago: change and stasis in Pleistocene to Recent Times". Malacologia. 49 (1): 25–59. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25.