Genus of gastropods
Laemodonta
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Laemodonta siamensis, live animal withdrawn into its shell
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Order:
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Ellobiida
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Superfamily:
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Ellobioidea
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Family:
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Ellobiidae
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Genus:
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Laemodonta Philippi, 1846
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Type species
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Auricula striata Philippi, 1846
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Synonyms[1]
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- Auricula (Plecotrema) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
- Laemodonta (Laemodonta) Philippi, 1846· accepted, alternate representation
- Laimodonta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (unjustified emendation of original genus name Laemodonta Philippi, 1846)
- Ophicardelus (Laimodonta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (unjustified emendation of original genus name Laemodonta Philippi, 1846)
- Plecotrema H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
- † Plecotrema (Plecotremopsis) de Morgan, 1917 (junior synonym)
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Laemodonta is a genus of small air-breathing, saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[1]