Plagiodontes

Plagiodontes
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Plagiodontes_weyenberghii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Cyclodontinidae
Genus: Plagiodontes
Doering, 1876
Type species
Pupa dentata
W. Wood, 1828
Synonyms
  • Bulimus (Plagiodontes) Doering, 1877 (original rank)
  • Odontostomus (Plagiodontes) Doering, 1877 (unaccepted combination)

Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cyclodontinidae.

It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.

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:

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050
  2. ↑ Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plagiodontes Doering, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=884824 on 2022-01-23
  4. ↑ Simone, L.R.L. 2006. Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Brazil. EGB, Fapesp, São Paulo, Brazil. 390 p.
  5. ↑ Caorsi J. & Goñi J.C. 1958. Geologia Uruguaya. Boletín del Instituto Geológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, 37:1–73.
  6. ↑ Parodiz, J.J. 1969. The Tertiary Non-marine Mollusca of South America. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 40: 1–242.
  7. ↑ Morton, L.S. & Herbst, R. 1993. Gastrópodos del Cretácico (Formación Mercedes) del Uruguay. Ameghiniana, 30(4): 445–452.