Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.
† ammŏdytēs, ae, m., = ἀμμοδύτης (sand-burrower), a kind of serpent in Africa, * Luc. 9, 716; Sol. 27 al.
hammŏdytes (amm-), ae, m., = ἁμμοδύτης (sand-crawler), an African serpent, Sol. 27, 33; Isid. 12, 4, 39; Luc. 9, 716 al.