Discus (gastropod)
Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.Distribution
Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America.Description
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs. The umbilicus is wide.Species
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
- Discus perspectivus J. C. M. von Mühlfeld, 1816
- Discus rotundatus – rotund disc
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- Discus brunsoni Berry, 1955 – Lake Disc
- Discus bryanti – saw-tooth disc, sawtooth disc
- Discus catskillensis – angular disc
- Discus clappi – channelled disc
- Discus engonatus Shuttleworth, 1852 – extinct
- Discus ganodus Mabille, 1882
- Discus gomerensis Rähle, 1994
- Discus guerinianus R. T. Lowe, 1852
- Discus kompsus J. Mabille, 1883
- Discus macclintocki F. C. Baker, 1928 – Iowa pleistocene snail, Pleistocene disc
- Discus marmorensis H. B. Baker, 1932 – Marbled Disc
- Discus nigrimontanus Pilsbry, 1924 – Black Mountain disc
- Discus patulus – domed disc
- Discus putrescens
- Discus retextus Shuttleworth, 1852
- Discus scutula Shuttleworth, 1852
- Discus selenitoides – file disc
- Discus shimekii – Striate Disc
- Discus textilis Shuttleworth, 1852 – extinct
- Discus whitneyi – Forest Disc
