description Rounded Snail (Discus rotundatus) Overview
Discus rotundatus, the rounded snail or rotund disc, is a small, air-breathing land snail in the family Discidae. Its low, disk-like shell reaches roughly 5.5 to 7 millimetres in diameter, has a broad deep umbilicus, tightly coiled whorls, coarse axial ribs, and regular reddish-brown bands or spots. Common in Europe, it lives in moist sheltered places such as woodland leaf litter, under logs and stones, damp herbage, and garden debris, where it feeds on fungi and plant matter [Conchological Society](https://conchsoc.org/node/5462) [SANBI](https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bioseries15introterrestmollusca.pdf).
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