| Pleurodonte | |
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| Pleurodonte guadeloupensis dominicana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Pleurodontidae |
| Genus: | Pleurodonte Fischer de Waldheim, 1807 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix lychnuchusO. F. Müller, 1774 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pleurodonte is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae. [2]
The genus Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 is considered to be a synonym of Pleurodonte by Vera (2008), [3] but Schileyko (2006) [4] considered Dentellaria to be a separate genus.
The distribution of the genus Pleurodonte includes:
Species within the genus Pleurodonte include: