Polydontes
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae |
| Genus: | Polydontes Montfort, 1810 |
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| Polydontes imperator Montfort, 1810 | |
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Polydontes is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae. [1]
Species[]
Species in the genus Polydontes include:[2]
- Polydontes acutangula (Burrow, 1815) - in Puerto Rico
- (Pfeiffer, 1860) - in Cuba
- (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
- (Montfort, 1810) - in Cuba
- (Shuttleworth, 1854) - in Puerto Rico
- Torre, 1938
- '' (Ferussac, 1821) - in the Lesser Antilles
- (Férussac, 1819)
- Pilsbry, 1938
- Species brought into synonymy
- Polydontes gigantea (Scopoli, 1786): synonym of (Scopoli, 1786)
- Polydontes lima (Ferussac, 1821) - in Puerto Rico: synonym of Granodomus lima (Férussac, 1821)
- (Muller, 1774) - in Guadeloupe Martinique: synonym of (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- Polydontes undulata (Ferussac, 1821) - extinct(?) in Haiti: synonym of (Férussac, 1821) (based on invalid original name)
References[]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Polydontes Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=932486 on 2021-02-16
- ^ Camaenidae - Polydontes http://malacos.chez.com/htm/J94G22.HTM accessed 4 May 2009.
External links[]
- Montfort P. [Denys de. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 (1810) ]
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