Biology:Polydontes
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Polydontes | |
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| shell of Polydontes imperator (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| 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
- Polydontes apollo (Pfeiffer, 1860) - in Cuba
- Polydontes castrensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Polydontes imperator (Montfort, 1810) - in Cuba
- Polydontes luquillensis (Shuttleworth, 1854) - in Puerto Rico
- Polydontes natensoni Torre, 1938
- Polydontes perplexa (Ferussac, 1821) - in the Lesser Antilles
- Polydontes sobrina (Férussac, 1819)
- Polydontes torrei Pilsbry, 1938
- Species brought into synonymy
- Polydontes gigantea (Scopoli, 1786): synonym of Hispaniolana gigantea (Scopoli, 1786)
- Polydontes lima (Ferussac, 1821) - in Puerto Rico: synonym of Granodomus lima (Férussac, 1821)
- Polydontes lychnuchus (Muller, 1774) - in Guadeloupe Martinique: synonym of Pleurodonte lychnuchus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- Polydontes undulata (Ferussac, 1821) - extinct(?) in Haiti: synonym of Hispaniolana crispatus (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
Wikidata ☰ Q7226288 entry
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