Mesodon is a genus of land snails in the family Polygyridae.

Mesodon
Three views of a shell of Mesodon thyroidus from W. G. Binney, 1878[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Mesodon
Rafinesque, 1821

Species edit

Species within the genus Mesodon include:[2]

 
Mesodon snail in North Carolina, USA

Formerly placed here edit

  • Fumonelix archeri – Archer's toothed land snail (as Mesodon archeri)
  • Fumonelix jonesiana – Jones' middle-toothed land snail (as Mesodon jonesianus)
  • Patera clenchi – Clench's middle-toothed land snail, Mission Creek Oregonian (as Mesodon clenchi)

References edit

  1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 11.
  2. ^ ITIS. Mesodon, accessed 1 November 2008.