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Pleurodonte

Pleurodonte
Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana.png
Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana
Pleurodonte bainbridgii.jpg
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
Synonyms
  • Caprinus Montfort, 1810
  • Cyclodoma Swainson, 1840
  • Lucernella Swainson, 1840
  • Lucidula Swainson, 1840
  • Pleurodonta Férussac, 1829

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:


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