Spelaeodiscus
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Spelaeodiscus is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spelaeodiscidae
Spelaeodiscidae
Spelaeodiscidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.- Taxonomy :The Spelaeodiscidae family is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata .The family Spelaeodiscidae has...

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This is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...

 of the family Spelaeodiscidae.

Species

The genus Spelaeodiscus contains the following species:
  • Spelaeodiscus albanicus (Wagner, 1914)
  • Spelaeodiscus bulgaricus (Subai & Dedov, 2008)
  • Spelaeodiscus dejongi Gittenberger, 1969
  • Spelaeodiscus hauffeni (Schmidt, 1855) - type species
  • Spelaeodiscus obodensis Bole, 1965
  • Spelaeodiscus triarius (Rossmässler, 1839) - synonym: Spelaeodiscus tatricus Hazay, 1883
  • Spelaeodiscus unidentatus Bole, 1961

External links

  • http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=620
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