Gudeodiscus villedaryi

Gudeodiscus villedaryi
Gudeodiscus villedaryi shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Plectopylidae
Genus:	Gudeodiscus
Species:	G. villedaryi
Binomial name
Gudeodiscus villedaryi (Ancey, 1888)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Plectopylis villedaryi Ancey, 1888 Endoplon villedaryi (Ancey, 1888) Plectopylis (Endoplon) choanomphala Möllendorff, 1901

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

Distribution

The distribution of Gudeodiscus villedaryi includes Thái Nguyên Province and Lạng Sơn Province in Vietnam.[2]

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.[2]

It co-occurs with other plectopylids in Vietnam: with Gudeodiscus anceyi and with Gudeodiscus phlyarius.[2]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.