''Plagiodontes'' is a recent

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of small to medium-sized air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

s in the family

Odontostomidae Odontostomidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod Mollusca, molluscs in the superfamily O ...

.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. . 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 ''Plagiodontes'' is sometimes considered a subgenus in the genus '' Cyclodontina''. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.Simone, L.R.L. 2006. Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Brazil. EGB, Fapesp, São Paulo, Brazil. 390 p.

Fossil record

The fossil record of ''Plagiodontes'' extends back to the Brazilian

Paleocene The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...

, with a supposed specimen of '' Plagiodontes dentatus'' found in

Itaboraí Basin Itaboraí (, ) is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, that belongs to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area. It was founded in 1672. In 2020, it had a population of 242,543. Around the year 1000, Tupi-speakin ...

.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. This same species has also been recorded from the

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

of Uruguay and

and

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

of Argentina.Caorsi J. & Goñi J.C. 1958. Geologia Uruguaya. Boletín del Instituto Geológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, 37:1–73.Parodiz, J.J. 1969. The Tertiary Non-marine Mollusca of South America. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 40: 1–242.Morton, L.S. & Herbst, R. 1993. Gastrópodos del Cretácico (Formación Mercedes) del Uruguay. Ameghiniana, 30(4): 445–452.

Species

Species within the genus ''Plagiodontes'' include: * ''

Plagiodontes brackebuschii ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phyloge ...

'' (Doering, 1877) * ''

Plagiodontes daedaleus ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' (Deshayes, 1851) * '' Plagiodontes dentatus'' (Wood, 1828) - fossil from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, recent from Argentina - type species of genus * ''

Plagiodontes multiplicatus ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' (Doering, 1877) * ''

Plagiodontes parodizi ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' Pizá & Cazzaniga, 2016 * ''

Plagiodontes patagonicus ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snai ...

'' (d'Orbigny, 1835) * ''

Plagiodontes rocae ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' Doering, 1881 * ''

Plagiodontes strobelii ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' (Doering, 1877) * ''

Plagiodontes weyenberghii ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' (Doering, 1877) * ''

Plagiodontes weyrauchi ''Plagiodontes'' is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail ...

'' Pizá & Cazzaniga, 2009 ;Synonyms: * ''Plagiodontes dentata'' (Wood, 1828): synonym of ''Plagiodontes dentatus'' (W. Wood, 1828) (incorrect gender of species epithet) * ''Plagiodontes iheringi'' (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898): synonym of ''Plagiodontes patagonicus'' (d'Orbigny, 1835) * ''Plagiodontes patagonica'' (d'Orbigny, 1835): synonym of ''Plagiodontes patagonicus'' (d'Orbigny, 1835) (incorrect gender of species epithet) *''Plagiodontes trahyrae'' - from Brazil: synonym of '' Cyclodontina trahyrae'' (S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1950)

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

Doering, A. (1877). Apuntes sobre la fauna de moluscos de la República Argentina. Tercera parte. Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Córdoba. 2(3) ["1876"]: 300-340
Odontostomidae Gastropod genera {{Odontostomidae-stub