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.

The genus Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 is considered to be a synonym of Pleurodonte by Vera (2008),[3] but Schileyko (2006)[2] considers Dentellaria to be a separate genus.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pleurodonte includes:

Species

Species within the genus Pleurodonte include:

References

  1. Fischer de Waldheim (1807). Mus. Démid. 3: 229.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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. 1 2 Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana 9 (1): 39–62.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 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 7 August 2007.

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