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).
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| A live individual of Helicodiscus parallelus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Helicodiscidae H. B. Baker, 1927 |
Genera edit
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
- Coarctatio F. Haas, 1945: synonym of Stenopylis Fulton, 1914 (junior synonym)
- Hebetodiscus H. B. Baker, 1929: synonym of Lucilla R. T. Lowe, 1852
- Hydrophrea Climo, 1974: synonym of Lucilla R. T. Lowe, 1852
References edit
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- ^ (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.
- ^ Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017