Metodontia Explained

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]

Species list

Species 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

These are terrestrial snails.

Notes and References

1. Wu, Min; Prozorova, Larisa, A., 2006: "The landsnail genus Metodontia Moellendorff (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Bradybaenidae) of China." Journal of Conchology 39(2): 159-173