Pleurodonte

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

Pleurodonte
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
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Pleurodontidae
Genus:
Pleurodonte

Synonyms[2]
  • Caprinus Montfort, 1810
  • Cyclodoma Swainson, 1840
  • Lucernella Swainson, 1840
  • Lucidula Swainson, 1840
  • Pleurodonta Férussac, 1829

The genus Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 is considered to be a synonym of Pleurodonte by Vera (2008),[3] but Schileyko (2006)[2] considers Dentellaria to be a separate genus.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Pleurodonte includes:

Species
A shell of Pleurodonte sloaneana.

Species within the genus Pleurodonte include:

  • Pleurodonte adamsiana Clapp, 1901[5]
  • Pleurodonte amabilis (C. B. Adams, 1850)[5]
  • Pleurodonte anomala (Pfeiffer, 1849)[5]
  • Pleurodonte atavus (Pfeiffer, 1859)[5]
  • Pleurodonte aureola Swainson[2]
  • Pleurodonte bainbridgii (Pfeiffer, 1845)[5]
  • Pleurodonte barbadensis Lamarck[2]
  • Pleurodonte bronni (Pfeiffer, 1846)[5]
  • Pleurodonte candescens C. B. Adams, 1850[5]
  • Pleurodonte cara (C. B. Adams, 1849)[5]
  • Pleurodonte catadupae H. B. Baker, 1935[5]
  • Pleurodonte chemnitziana (Pfeiffer, 1845)[5]
  • Pleurodonte dentiens (Férussac, 1822)[4]
  • † Pleurodonte desidens (Rang, 1834) - was endemic to Martinique[6]
  • Pleurodonte discolor Férussac[2]
  • Pleurodonte guadeloupensis[4]
  • Pleurodonte hippocastaneum Lamarck[2]
  • Pleurodonte josephinae (Férussac, 1832)[4]
  • Pleurodonte ingens (C. B. Adams, 1850)[5]
  • Pleurodonte invalida (C. B. Adams, 1850)[5]
  • Pleurodonte isabella Férussac, 1821
  • Pleurodonte lucerna (Müller, 1774)[5]
  • Pleurodonte lychnuchus (Müller, 174)[2]
  • Pleurodonte mora Gray in Griffith, 1834[5]
  • Pleurodonte nigrescens (Wood, 1828)[4]
  • Pleurodonte okeniana (Pfeiffer, 1845)[5]
  • Pleurodonte pallescens (C. B. Adams, 1851)[5]
  • Pleurodonte peracutissima (C. B. Adams, 1845)[5]
  • Pleurodonte picturata (C. B. Adams, 1849)[5]
  • Pleurodonte sinuata (Müller, 1774)[5]
  • Pleurodonte sloaneana (Pfeiffer, 1868)[5]
  • Pleurodonte soror (Férussac, 1821)[5]
  • Pleurodonte strangulata (C. B. Adams, 1849)[5]
  • Pleurodonte subacuta (Pfeiffer, 1867)[5]
  • Pleurodonte sublucerna (Pilsbry, 1889)[5]
  • Pleurodonte tridentina (Férussac, 1832)[5]

References
  1. Fischer de Waldheim (1807). Mus. Démid. 3: 229.
  2. Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". Ruthenica Suppl. 2: 1765-1906. pages 1820.
  3. Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 9 (1): 39–62.
  4. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 7 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
  6. Bouchet P. (2000). Pleurodonte desidens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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