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Plagiodontes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Odontostomidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Orthalicoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Odontostomidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Orthalicidae, Bulimulus, Bostryx

Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae. Plagiodontes is sometimes considered a subgenus in the genus Cyclodontina. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.

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Fossil record

The fossil record of Plagiodontes extends back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen of Plagiodontes dentatus found in Itaboraí Basin. This same species has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.

Species

Species within the genus Plagiodontes include:

  • Plagiodontes dentatus (Wood, 1828) - fossil from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, recent from Argentina - type species of genus
  • Plagiodontes trahyrae - from Brazil

    • References

    Plagiodontes Wikipedia
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