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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Punctoidea

Familia: Discidae
Genus: Anguispira
Subgenera: A. (Anguispira) – A. (Zonodiscus)
Name

Anguispira Morse, 1864: 11

Type Species: Helix alternata Say, 1816

References
Primary references

Morse, E.S. 1864. Observations on the Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine: including a Catalogue of all the Species of terrestrial and fluviatile Mollusca known to inhabit the State. Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History 1: 1–63. BHL Reference page.

Anguispira is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails. [2]
Species

Species:[3]

Anguispira alabama (G.H.Clapp, 1920)
Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817)
Anguispira cumberlandiana (I.Lea, 1840)
Anguispira fergusoni (Bland, 1862)
Anguispira holroydensis Russell, 1956
Anguispira jessica Kutchka, 1938
Anguispira knoxensis (Pilsbry, 1901)
Anguispira kochi (L.Pfeiffer, 1846)
Anguispira macneilli B.Walker, 1928
Anguispira mordax (Shuttleworth, 1852)
Anguispira nimapuna H.B.Baker, 1932
Anguispira picta (G.H.Clapp, 1920) = painted snake-coiled forest snail
Anguispira rugoderma Hubricht, 1938
Anguispira russelli Tozer, 1956
Anguispira stihleri Dourson, 2015
Anguispira strongyloides (Pfeiffer, 1854)

Synonyms

Anguispira clarki Vanatta, 1924: synonym of Anguispira fergusoni (Bland, 1862)
† Anguispira simplex Russell, 1955: synonym of † Haplotrema simplex (Russell, 1955) (new combination)
Anguispira strigosa (A. Gould, 1846): synonym of Oreohelix strigosa (A. Gould, 1846) (unaccepted combination)

References

Morse E. S. (1864) J. Portland Soc. nat. Hist. 1: 11.
MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Anguispira Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995314 on 2022-07-12

"Anguispira Morse, 1864". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 October 2021.

Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

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