Hunyadiscus saurini

Hunyadiscus saurini
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: Hunyadiscus
Species: H. saurini
Binomial name
Hunyadiscus saurini
Páll-Gergely, 2016[1]

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

The specific name saurini is in honour of French geologist and malacologist Edmond Saurin (1904–1977), who collected type material.[1] Saurin's type material is as of 2016 the only known material of this species.[1]

Distribution

The distribution of Hunyadiscus saurini includes Laos.[1]

The type locality is "Laos, Pa Hia (Ancienne province Tran Ninh)".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Páll-Gergely B., Muratov I. V. & Asami T. (2016). "The family Plectopylidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Laos with the description of two new genera and a new species". ZooKeys 592: 1-26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.592.8118.
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