Discus | |
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A live Discus rotundatus | |
A live Discus catskillensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
Family: | Discidae |
Genus: |
Discus Fitzinger, 1833 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America.
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs. The umbilicus is wide.
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus ?