Polydontes
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| Polydontes | |
|---|---|
| shell of Polydontes imperator (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae |
| Genus: | Polydontes Montfort, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Polydontes imperator Montfort, 1810 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Polydontes is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae.[1]