Pleurodonte | |
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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 |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Pleurodontidae |
Genus: |
Pleurodonte Fischer de Waldheim, 1807 |
Synonyms | |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
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), but Schileyko (2006) considers Dentellaria to be a separate genus.
The distribution of the genus Pleurodonte includes:
Species within the genus Pleurodonte include: