Polydontes

Polydontes is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae. [1]

Polydontes
shell of Polydontes imperator (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Sagdoidea
Family: Sagdidae
Genus: Polydontes
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Polydontes imperator Montfort, 1810
Synonyms
  • Agalma Albers, 1860
  • Galactochilus F. Sandberger, 1875
  • Helix (Galactochilus) F. Sandberger, 1875 (basionym)
  • Polydontes (Galactochilus) F. Sandberger, 1875· accepted, alternate representation

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
  1. 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
  2. Camaenidae - Polydontes http://malacos.chez.com/htm/J94G22.HTM accessed 4 May 2009.
  • 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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