Pleurodontidae

Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. ^[1]

Pleurodontidae
1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Pleurodontidae H. von Ihering, 1912
Synonyms[1]
Lucerninae Swainson, 1840 Lampadiidae Winckworth, 1945 Solaropsidae H. Nordsieck, 1986 Caracolinae Cuezzo, 2003

This family is classified within the order Stylommatophora within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2] This family has no subfamilies.^[2]

The family Pleurodontidae includes some American taxa that used to be included within the Australasian family Camaenidae, a taxon whose monophyly was in doubt.

Anatomy

Pleurodontids are defined by a missing diverticulum. The stimulatory organ is equally missing.

Genera

Genera within this family include:

• Coloniconcha Pilsbry, 1933 - with the only species Coloniconcha prima Pilsbry, 1933^[3]
• Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 - either separate genus (with a synonym: Lucerna)^[4] or as a synonym of Pleurodonte^[5]
• Discolepis Ancey, 1904
• Eurycratera Beck, 1837^[6]
  • Eurycratera jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1791)^[6]
• † Ganeselloides Yen, 1969
• Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889
• Lucerna Swainson, 1840
• Pleurodonte Fischer de Waldheim, 1807
• Thelidomus Swainson, 1840^[7] (or in Camaenidae)