Polydontes

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Polydontes
shell of Polydontes imperator (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this 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
  • Agalma Albers, 1860
  • Galactochilus F. Sandberger, 1875
  • Helix (Galactochilus) F. Sandberger, 1875 (basionym)
  • Polydontes (Galactochilus) F. Sandberger, 1875· accepted, alternate representation

Polydontes is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polydontinae of the family Sagdidae.[1]

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