Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass "Lower Heterobranchia" > Superfamily Orbitestelloidea > Family Xylodisculidae

Xylodiscula B. A. Marshall, 1988

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xylodiscula analoga Warén & Bouchet, 2001
Xylodiscula boucheti Warén, Carrozza & Rocchini, 1992
Xylodiscula lens Warén, 1992
Xylodiscula planata Høisæter & Johanessen, 2001
Xylodiscula wareni Bogi & Bartolini, 2008

Literature

original description	Marshall, B. A. (1988). Skeneidae, Vitrinellidae and Orbitestellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) associated with biogenic substrata from bathyal depths off New Zealand and New South Wales. Journal of Natural History. 22(4): 949-1004.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Warén, A. & Bouchet, P. (1993). New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta. 22: 1-90.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xylodiscula B. A. Marshall, 1988. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138666