Pleurodiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Pleurodiscus
A shell of Pleurodiscus balmei
Scientific classification
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Phylum:
Class:
Order:
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
Pleurodiscidae

Wenz, 1923
Genus:
Pleurodiscus

Wenz, 1919[1]
species

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Pleurodiscus is the only genus in the family Pleurodiscidae.[citation needed]

Species

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Species within the genus Pleurodiscus include:

References

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  1. ^ (in German) Wenz, W. (1919). "Zur Systematik tertiärer Land- und Süßwasser-Gastropoden". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 51(2): 76-79. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. ^ a b c d "Species in genus Pleurodiscus" (n=4). AnimalBase, accessed 15 February 2010.
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