| Laemodonta | |
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| Laemodonta siamensis , live animal withdrawn into its shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Laemodonta Philippi, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Auricula striataPhilippi, 1846 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Laemodonta is a genus of small air-breathing, saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. [1]
(Description as Plecotrema) The solid shell has an ovate-conic shape and is umbilicated. The acute spire is elevated. The oblong aperture is contracted. The inner lip shows three plaits, the middle one bifid. The outer lip has a marginal varix and is internally bidentate. [2]
Species within the genus Laemodonta include:
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Marinula is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Ellobiidae.
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Melampus is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.
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Obba is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the subfamily Camaeninae of the family Camaenidae.
Allochroa is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Ellobiidae.
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