Helicodiscidae

Helicodiscidae
A live individual of Helicodiscus parallelus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Punctoidea
Family:	Helicodiscidae H. B. Baker, 1927

Helicodiscidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

Genera within the family include:

• Lucilla Lowe, 1852 ^[1]
• Subfamily Helicodiscinae Pilsbry, 1927
  • Chanomphalus Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879 ^[2]
  • Helicodiscus Morse, 1864 - the type genus
  • Polygyriscus Pilsbry, 1948
  • Speleodiscoides A.G. Smith, 1957
  • Radiodiscus - may belong in the Charopidae
• Subfamily Stenopylinae Thiele, 1931
  • Stenopylis Fulton, 1914
  • Zilchogyra

Synonyms

• CoarctatioF. Haas, 1945: synonym of StenopylisFulton, 1914 (junior synonym)
• HebetodiscusH. B. Baker, 1929: synonym of LucillaR. T. Lowe, 1852
• HydrophreaClimo, 1974: synonym of LucillaR. T. Lowe, 1852

References

1. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca , Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
2. Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017