Pleurodonte

Pleurodonte
Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Pleurodonte
Fischer de Waldheim, 1807
Type species
Helix lychnuchus O. F. Müller, 1774
Synonyms
  • Caprinus Montfort, 1810
  • Chrysodon Ancey, 1887 (Replaced by Gonostomopsis on the assumption that it was preoccupied by Chrysodon Oken, 1815, which however was published in a work placed on the Official Index)
  • Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889
  • Helix (Caprinus) Montfort, 1810
  • Lucerna (Lucidula) Swainson, 1840
  • Lucernella Swainson, 1840
  • Pleurodonta Pilsbry, 1926 (inadvertent emendation)
  • Pleurodonte (Pleurodonte) Fischer von Waldheim, 1807· accepted, alternate representation

Pleurodonte is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae.

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

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