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

Hunyadiscus andersoni
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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H. andersoni
Binomial name
Hunyadiscus andersoni
Synonyms[2]

Helix (Plectopylis) andersoni Blanford, 1869
Chersaecia andersoni (Blanford, 1869)

Distribution edit

The distribution of Hunyadiscus andersoni includes Kachin State and Mandalay Region in Northern Myanmar and in Kakhyen Hills, Western Yunnan, China.[2]

The type locality is "Bhamo in regno Avæ et Hoetone in Yunan".[1][2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Blanford W. T. (1869). "Descriptions of new Land and Freshwater Mollusc Species collected by Dr. John Anderson in Upper Burma and Yunan". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37(1): 444–450. page 448. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07354.x.
  2. ^ a b c 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.