# Metodontia

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Metodontia huaiensis.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Metodontia huaiensis](/source/Metodontia_huaiensis)''
| taxon=Metodontia
| authority = [Möllendorff](/source/Otto_Franz_von_M%C3%B6llendorff), 1886}}

'''''Metodontia''''' is a genus of [land snail](/source/land_snail)s, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family [Camaenidae](/source/Camaenidae). This genus is considered to be the most primitive of the [bradybaenid](/source/Bradybaeninae) snails.<ref>Wu, Min; Prozorova, Larisa, A., 2006: "The landsnail genus ''Metodontia'' Moellendorff (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Bradybaenidae) of China." [Journal of Conchology](/source/Journal_of_Conchology) 39(2): 159-173</ref><ref>{{guokr |type=post |id=690290 |title=贝壳上也长牙 |trans-title="Teeth" on shells |author=月季花中的星辰 |date=2015-07-12 | access-date=1 January 2016 }}</ref>

==Species list==
Species within the genus ''Metodontia'' include:
*''[Metodontia beresowskii](/source/Metodontia_beresowskii)'' (Mollendorff, 1899)
*''[Metodontia griphodes](/source/Metodontia_griphodes)'' (Sturany, 1901)
*''[Metodontia huaiensis huaiensis](/source/Metodontia_huaiensis_huaiensis)'' (Crosse, 1882)
*''[Metodontia huaiensis](/source/Metodontia_huaiensis)'' (Mollendorff, 1886)
*''[Metodontia yantaiensis yantaiensis](/source/Metodontia_yantaiensis_yantaiensis)'' (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863) 
*''[Metodontia yantaiensis tetrodon](/source/Metodontia_yantaiensis_tetrodon)'' (Mollendorff, 1875)

==Habitat==
These are terrestrial snails.

==References==
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Category:Bradybaeninae
Category:Taxa named by Otto Franz von Möllendorff

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