Plagiodontes Temporal range:
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Plagiodontes_weyenberghii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Odontostomidae |
Genus: | Plagiodontes Doering, 1876 |
Type species | |
Pupa dentata W. Wood, 1828
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Synonyms | |
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Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.[2][3]
Plagiodontes is sometimes considered a subgenus in the genus Cyclodontina. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.[4]
The fossil record of Plagiodontes extends back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen of Plagiodontes dentatus found in Itaboraí Basin.[1] This same species has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.[5][6][7]
Species within the genus Plagiodontes include: