| Sicradiscus mansuyi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Plectopylidae |
| Genus: | Sicradiscus |
| Species: | S. mansuyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Sicradiscus mansuyi (Gude, 1908) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Plectopylis mansuyi Gude, 1908 | |
Sicradiscus mansuyi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Plectopylidae.
Distribution
The distribution of Sicradiscus mansuyi includes Cao Bằng Province and Hà Giang Province in Northeast Vietnam. It was also found in Ban Gioc–Detian Falls very close to the Vietnamese border within Daxin County, Guangxi, China.
The type locality is Hạ Lang in the eastern part of Cao Bằng Province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam.
Description
The width of the shell is 6.7–7.0 mm. The height of the shell is 3.4–3.9 mm.
Ecology
It is a ground-dwelling species as all other plectopylid snails in Vietnam.
It co-occur with other plectopylids in Vietnam: with Gudeodiscus cyrtochilus, Gudeodiscus giardi and with Gudeodiscus suprafilaris. Gudeodiscus phlyarius live at geographically close sites to Sicradiscus mansuyi.
References
- ^ Gude G. K. (1908). "Observation on a number of Plectopylis collected in Tonkin by M. Mansuy with description of four new species". Journal de Conchyliologie 55: 345-357, pages 348–351, figures 2a–e, plate 7, figures 1–3.
- ^ Páll-Gergely B., Hunyadi A., Ablett J., Luong Van H., Naggs F. & Asami T. (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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sicradiscus mansuyi | |