Metodontia

Metodontia
Metodontia huaiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Bradybaeninae
Genus:	Metodontia Möllendorff, 1886

Metodontia is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. This genus is considered to be the most primitive of the bradybaenid snails. ^{[1] [2]}

Species list

Species within the genus Metodontia include:

• Metodontia beresowskii (Mollendorff, 1899)
• Metodontia griphodes (Sturany, 1901)
• Metodontia huaiensis huaiensis (Crosse, 1882)
• Metodontia huaiensis (Mollendorff, 1886)
• Metodontia yantaiensis yantaiensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)
• Metodontia yantaiensis tetrodon (Mollendorff, 1875)

Habitat

These are terrestrial snails.

References

1. Wu, Min; Prozorova, Larisa, A., 2006: "The landsnail genus Metodontia Moellendorff (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Bradybaenidae) of China." Journal of Conchology 39(2): 159-173
2. 月季花中的星辰 (2015-07-12). "贝壳上也长牙" ["Teeth" on shells] (in Simplified Chinese). GuoKr. Retrieved 1 January 2016.