Helicodiscus

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Helicodiscus
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Drawing of a live individual of
Helicodiscus parallelus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicodiscidae
Subfamily: Helicodiscinae
Genus: Helicodiscus
E. S. Morse, 1864 [1]

Helicodiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicodiscidae.

Species

Species within the genus Helicodiscus include:

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References

  1. Morse, E. S. 1864. Observations on the terrestrial Pulmonifera, including a catalogue of all species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the state. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History 1 (1): 1-63, Pl. I-II [= 1-2 ], 3-10.
  2. "Helicodiscus eigenmanni". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2017.