Plagiodontes

Plagiodontes
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1]
Plagiodontes_weyenberghii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Odontostomidae
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 Odontostomidae.[2][3]

Plagiodontes is sometimes considered a subgenus in the genus Cyclodontina. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.[4]

Fossil record

The fossil record of Plagiodontes extends back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen of Plagiodontes dentatus found in Itaboraí Basin.[1] This same species has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.[5][6][7]

Species

Species within the genus Plagiodontes include:

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

  1. ^ a b 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.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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