Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi

Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.

Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Plectopyloidea
Family:
Plectopylidae
Genus:
Gudeodiscus
Subgenus:
Gudeodiscus?[1]
Species:
G. dautzenbergi
Binomial name
Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi
(Gude, 1901)
Synonyms[1]

Plectopylis Dautzenbergi Gude, 1901
Plectopylis persimilis Gude, 1901
Gudeodiscus persimilis (Gude, 1901)

The specific name is in honour of Belgian malacologist Philippe Dautzenberg.

Distribution

The distribution of Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi includes Vietnam.[1]

Ecology

It is a ground-dwelling species as all other plectopylid snails in Vietnam.[1]

Gudeodiscus phlyarius live at geographically close sites to Gudeodiscus dautzenbergi.[1]

References
  1. Páll-Gergely B., Hunyadi A., Ablett J., Luong Van H., Naggs F. & Asami T. (2015). "Systematics of the family Plectopylidae in Vietnam with additional information on Chinese taxa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)". ZooKeys 473: 1–118. doi:10.3897/zookeys.473.8659.


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