Xenodiscula
Encyclopedia
Xenodiscula is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae
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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
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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 Sagdidae
Sagdidae
Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea...
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Species
There is only one species in the genus Xenodiscula:- Xenodiscula taintoriXenodiscula taintoriXenodiscula taintori is a species of land snail, a gastropod in the Sagdidae family. It is found in Guatemala and Nicaragua....