Notodiscus hookeri

Notodiscus hookeri
A live Notodiscus hookeri is eating lichen Usnea taylorii.
Apical view of the shell of holotype of Notodiscus hookeri heardensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Charopidae
Genus:
Notodiscus
Species:
N. hookeri
Binomial name
Notodiscus hookeri
(Reeve, 1854)[1]
Synonyms

Helix hookeri Reeve, 1854
Amphidoxa hookeri (Reeve, 1854)

Notodiscus hookeri is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.[2] This snail lives on islands in the sub-Antarctic region. Its shell is unique among land snails in that the organic shell layers contain no chitin.

  1. ^ Reeve L. A. (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals 7: Species 1474, plate 208, figure 1474.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Charrier 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).