Discus (gastropod)

Discus
A live Discus rotundatus
A live Discus catskillensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Discidae
Genus: Discus
Fitzinger, 1833[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Allerya Bourguignat, 1878
  • Delomphalus Charpentier, 1837
  • Eyryomphala H.Beck, 1837
  • Goniodiscus
  • Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
  • Patula Held, 1838
  • Patularia Clessin, 1876

Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.

  1. ^ Fitzinger L. I. (1833). "Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben". Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreich's unter der Enns 3: 88–122. Wien.
  2. ^ "Discus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.