Pleurodonte

Pleurodonte
Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana
1868 painting of a live individual of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Pleurodonte
Fischer de Waldheim, 1807[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Caprinus Montfort, 1810
  • Cyclodoma Swainson, 1840
  • Lucernella Swainson, 1840
  • Lucidula Swainson, 1840
  • Pleurodonta Férussac, 1829

Pleurodonte is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurodontidae.

Genus Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 is considered as a synonym of Pleurodonte by Vera (2008),[3] but Schileyko (2006)[2] consider Dentellaria as a separate genus.

Contents

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Pleurodonte include:

Species

Species within the genus Pleurodonte include:

References

  1. ^ Fischer de Waldheim (1807). Mus. Démid. 3: 229.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". Ruthenica Suppl. 2: 1765-1906. pages 1820.
  3. ^ a b Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Biota Colombiana 9 (1): 39–62. http://www.siac.net.co/biota/bitstream/123456789/245/1/malacofauna.pdf. 
  4. ^ a b c d e Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
  6. ^ Bouchet P. (2000). Pleurodonte desidens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 07 August 2007.

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