Polydontes

Updated on Dec 25, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Helicoidea Phylum Mollusca		Class Gastropoda Family Camaenidae Rank Genus

Similar Polydontes lima, Pleurodontidae, Zachrysia, Pleurodonte, Camaenidae

Polydontes lima caracol lija

Polydontes is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.

Species in the genus Polydontes include:

Polydontes acutangula (Burrow, 1815) - in Puerto Rico

Polydontes apollo (Pfeiffer, 1860) - in Cuba

Polydontes gigantea (Scopoli, 1786)

Polydontes imperator (Montfort, 1810) - in Cuba

Polydontes lima (Ferussac, 1821) - in Puerto Rico

Polydontes luquillensis (Shuttleworth, 1854) - in Puerto Rico

Polydontes perplexa'' (Ferussac, 1821) - in the Lesser Antilles

Polydontes pychnuchus (Muller, 1774) - in Guadeloupe Martinique

Polydontes undulata (Ferussac, 1821) - extinct(?) in Haiti

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