Polydontes

Polydontes
shell of Polydontes imperator (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific 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.

Species

Species in the genus Polydontes include:

• Polydontes acutangula (Burrow, 1815) - in Puerto Rico
• Polydontes apollo (Pfeiffer, 1860) - in Cuba
• Polydontes castrensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Polydontes imperator (Montfort, 1810) - in Cuba
• Polydontes luquillensis (Shuttleworth, 1854) - in Puerto Rico
• Polydontes natensoni Torre, 1938
• Polydontes perplexa (Ferussac, 1821) - in the Lesser Antilles
• Polydontes sobrina (Férussac, 1819)
• Polydontes torrei Pilsbry, 1938

Species brought into synonymy

• Polydontes gigantea (Scopoli, 1786): synonym of Hispaniolana gigantea (Scopoli, 1786)
• Polydontes lima (Ferussac, 1821) - in Puerto Rico: synonym of Granodomus lima (Férussac, 1821)
• Polydontes lychnuchus (Muller, 1774) - in Guadeloupe Martinique: synonym of Pleurodonte lychnuchus (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Polydontes undulata (Ferussac, 1821) - extinct(?) in Haiti: synonym of Hispaniolana crispatus (Férussac, 1821) (based on invalid original name)

External links

• Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 (1810)