Laemodonta | |
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Laemodonta siamensis , live animal withdrawn into its shell | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
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: