Marbled disc

Marbled disc
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Discidae
Genus: Discus
Species: D. marmorensis
Binomial name
Discus marmorensis
H. B. Baker, 1932

Discus marmorensis, common name "the marbled disc", is a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae, the disk snails. This species is endemic to the United States.

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