Duméril, 1859 Polemon is a genus of rear-fanged mildly venomous snakes in the family Atractaspididae.

The mollusc genus of family Carditidae invalidly described by Carpenter in 1863 has been renamed Miodontiscus.

In the genus Polemon the maxillary is very short, with three small teeth, followed, after an interspace, by a very large, grooved fang situated anterior to the eye.

The nostrils are in a divided nasal which does not touch the rostral, the internasal forms a suture with the first upper labial.

The ventrals are rounded; the subcaudals are single (entire),[3] or double (divided).