''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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

s, terrestrial

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 includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

s in the family

Odontostomidae Odontostomidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and su ...

.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), E ...

, with a supposed specimen of '' Plagiodontes dentatus'' found in Itaboraí Basin.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 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 means "less recen ...

of Uruguay and

and

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

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 pulmonate gastropods in the family Odontostomidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snai ...

'' (Doering, 1877) * '' Plagiodontes daedaleus'' (Deshayes, 1851) *'' Plagiodontes dentatus'' (Wood, 1828) - fossil from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, recent from Argentina - type species of genus * '' Plagiodontes multiplicatus'' (Doering, 1877) * '' Plagiodontes parodizi'' Pizá & Cazzaniga, 2016 * '' Plagiodontes patagonicus'' (d'Orbigny, 1835) * '' Plagiodontes rocae'' Doering, 1881 * '' Plagiodontes strobelii'' (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 snai ...

'' (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 snai ...

'' 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 16th, 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">1876"">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"
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