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Discula

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Discula polymorpha 01.JPG

| image_caption = Discula polymorpha shell

| taxon = Discula

| authority = R. T. Lowe, 1852Lowe R. T. (1852). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2)9: 116.

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Discula is a genus of small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.{{Cite journal|last=Razkin|first=Oihana|last2=Gómez-Moliner|first2=Benjamín Juán|last3=Prieto|first3=Carlos Enrique|last4=Martínez-Ortí|first4=Alberto|last5=Arrébola|first5=José Ramón|last6=Muñoz|first6=Benito|last7=Chueca|first7=Luis Javier|last8=Madeira|first8=María José|date=February 2015|title=Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=83|pages=99–117|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014|pmid=25485783|issn=1055-7903}}{{WRMS species|996329|Discula R. T. Lowe, 1852||19 December 2018}}

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:

synonyms:

  • Discula bicarinata is a synonym for Hystricella bicarinata (Sowerby, 1824){{cite iucn |author=Seddon, M.B. |date=2011 |title=Hystricella bicarinata |volume=2011 |page=e.T6724A12800659 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6724A12800659.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}
  • Discula echinulata is a synonym for Hystricella echinulata{{cite iucn |author=Neiber, M.T. |author2=De Mattia, W. |author3=Groh, K. |date=2018 |title=Hystricella echinulata |volume=2018 |page=e.T6727A122351869 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T6727A122351869.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}
  • Discula oxytropis is a synonym for Wollastonaria oxytropis{{cite iucn |author=Seddon, M.B. |date=2011 |title=Wollastonaria oxytropis |volume=2011 |page=e.T6728A12801442 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6728A12801442.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}
  • Discula testudinalis is a synonym for Testudodiscula testudinalis
  • Discula turricula is a synonym for Hystricella turricula (R. T. Lowe, 1831){{cite iucn |author=Seddon, M.B. |date=2011 |title=Wollastonaria turricula |volume=2011 |page=e.T6723A12800477 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6723A12800477.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

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

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Further reading

  • {{Cite journal|title=Shell form in Discula polymorpha|journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies|year=1979|volume = 45| pages =45–51|author1=Cook L. M. |author2=Pettitt C. W. A. |issue=1|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065483}}
  • {{Cite journal |author1=Robert A.D. Cameron |author2=Laurence M. Cook |author3=Glenn A. Goodfriend |author4=Mary B. Seddon | title=Fossil land snail faunas of Porto Santo, Madeiran archipelago: change and stasis in Pleistocene to Recent Times| journal=Malacologia| year=2006| volume=49| issue=1| pages=25–59| doi=10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.25}}

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