Laemodonta
Laemodonta siamensis, live animal withdrawn into its shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Laemodonta Philippi, 1846
Type species
Auricula striata Philippi, 1846
Synonyms[1]
Auricula (Plecotrema) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Laemodonta (Laemodonta) Philippi, 1846· accepted, alternate representation Laimodonta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (unjustified emendation of original genus name Laemodonta Philippi, 1846) Ophicardelus (Laimodonta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (unjustified emendation of original genus name Laemodonta Philippi, 1846) Plecotrema H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 † Plecotrema (Plecotremopsis) de Morgan, 1917 (junior synonym)

Laemodonta is a genus of small air-breathing, saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.^[1]

(Description as Plecotrema) The solid shell has an ovate-conic shape and is umbilicated. The acute spire is elevated. The oblong aperture is contracted. The inner lip shows three plaits, the middle one bifid. The outer lip has a marginal varix and is internally bidentate.^[2]

Species within the genus Laemodonta include:

• Laemodonta bella (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855)
• Laemodonta blaisei (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1905)
• † Laemodonta blesensis (Tournouër, 1870) †
• † Laemodonta bourgeoisi (Tournouër, 1870) †
• Laemodonta clausa (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
• Laemodonta cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1854)
• † Laemodonta delaunayi (Tournouër, 1870) †
• Laemodonta exaratoides Kawabe, 1992
• Laemodonta hirsuta (Garrett, 1872)
• Laemodonta livida Perugia, 2010
• Laemodonta madagascariensis Bozzetti, 2007
• Laemodonta minuta (Möllendorff, 1885)
• Laemodonta monilifera (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
• Laemodonta oblonga Jickeli, 1874
• Laemodonta octanfracta (Jonas, 1845)
• Laemodonta punctatostriata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
• Laemodonta punctigera (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853)
• Laemodonta rapax (Dohrn, 1860)
• Laemodonta siamensis (Morelet, 1875)
• † Laemodonta striata (Förster, 1888) †
• Laemodonta typica (H. & A. Adams, 1854)

Species brought into synonymy

• Laemodonta affinis (Férussac, 1821) : synonym of Pedipes affinis Férussac, 1821
• Laemodonta amplicatus C. F. Jickeli, 1874: synonym of Pedipes amplicatus (C. F. Jickeli, 1874)
• Laemodonta bronni' (sic)': synonym of Allochroa bronnii (Philippi, 1846)
• Laemodonta ciliata (Tate, 1879): synonym of Laemodonta octanfracta (Jonas, 1845)
• Laemodonta conica (Pease, 1863): synonym of Allochroa layardi (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855)
• Laemodonta exarata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) synonym of Melampus exaratus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
• Laemodonta exigua (H. Adams, 1867): synonym of Laemodonta bella (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855)
• Laemodonta striata (Philippi, 1846): synonym of Laemodonta octanfracta (Jonas, 1845)

• Zilch, A. 1959. Euthyneura. In, Schindewolf, O.H. (ed.). Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Berlin-Zehlendorf : Bornträger Vol. 6(2)(2) xii 834 pp.
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Smith B.J. (1992). Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 8. xii + 405 pp

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• Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1854). Monograph of Plecotrema, a new genus of gasteropodous mollusks, belonging to the family Auriculidae, from specimens in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1853) 21: 120-122
• Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1898). Verzeichnis der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz. 22: 26-208
• Morgan J. de. (1917). Observations sur les Auriculidés du Falunien de la Touraine. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. ser. 4, 16: 21-49