Metodontia is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae. This genus is considered to be the most primitive of the bradybaenid snails.[1][2]
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| Genus: | Metodontia Möllendorff, 1886
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Species list
editSpecies within the genus Metodontia include:
- Metodontia beresowskii (Mollendorff, 1899)
- Metodontia griphodes (Sturany, 1901)
- Metodontia huaiensis huaiensis (Crosse, 1882)
- Metodontia huaiensis (Mollendorff, 1886)
- Metodontia yantaiensis yantaiensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)
- Metodontia yantaiensis tetrodon (Mollendorff, 1875)
Habitat
editThese are terrestrial snails.
References
edit- ^ Wu, Min; Prozorova, Larisa, A., 2006: "The landsnail genus Metodontia Moellendorff (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Bradybaenidae) of China." Journal of Conchology 39(2): 159-173
- ^ 月季花中的星辰 (2015-07-12). "贝壳上也长牙" ["Teeth" on shells] (in Simplified Chinese). GuoKr. Retrieved 1 January 2016.