Gudeodiscus villedaryi

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

Gudeodiscus villedaryi
Gudeodiscus villedaryi shell
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. villedaryi
Binomial name
Gudeodiscus villedaryi
(Ancey, 1888)[2]
Synonyms[1]

Plectopylis villedaryi Ancey, 1888
Endoplon villedaryi (Ancey, 1888)
Plectopylis (Endoplon) choanomphala Möllendorff, 1901

Distribution

The distribution of Gudeodiscus villedaryi includes Thái Nguyên Province and Lạng Sơn Province in Vietnam.[1]

The type locality is Lạng Sơn Province and Bắc Ninh Province (in French original: "Région de Lang-son et de Bac-ninh").

Ecology

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

It co-occurs with other plectopylids in Vietnam: with Gudeodiscus anceyi and with Gudeodiscus phlyarius.[1]

References
  1. Páll-Gergely, Barna; Hunyadi, András; Ablett, Jonathan; Văn Lương, Hào; Naggs, Fred; Asami, Takahiro (20 January 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. PMC 4304041. PMID 25632253.
  2. Ancey C.-F. (1888). "Mollusques du Haut-Tonkin (Récoltes de M. Villedary)". Le Naturaliste: journal des échanges et des nouvelles 2(10): 70–72, pages 71–72, figure 2.


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