Megaustenia
Genus of gastropods
| Megaustenia | |
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| Shell of Megaustenia rondonyi (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Ariophantidae |
| Genus: | Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Vitrina praestans Gould, 1843 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Megaustenia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.[1]
Species
- Megaustenia annhiae (Thach & F. Huber, 2017)
- Megaustenia balansai (Mabille, 1889)
- Megaustenia birmanica (Philippi, 1847)
- Megaustenia cochinchinensis (Morelet, 1866)
- Megaustenia fragilis (Möllendorff, 1901)
- Megaustenia heliciformis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Megaustenia huberi (Thach, 2016)
- Megaustenia imperator (A. Gould, 1859)
- Megaustenia inusitata (Godwin-Austen, 1898)
- Megaustenia khyoungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
- Megaustenia malefica (J. Mabille, 1887)
- Megaustenia messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
- Megaustenia praestans (Gould, 1843)
- Megaustenia rondonyi (H. Fischer, 1898)
- Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855)
- Megaustenia tongkingensis (Möllendorff, 1901)
- Megaustenia unguiculus (Morelet, 1865)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Megaustenia russeola (Morelet, 1865): synonym of Durgella russeola (Morelet, 1865) (unaccepted combination)
- Megaustenia siamense (Haines, 1855): synonym of Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855) (incorrect gender of species name)
- Megaustenia tecta (Souleyet, 1852): synonym of Macrochlamys tecta (Souleyet, 1852)
References
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995745 on 2021-07-08
- Theobald, W. (1857). Notes on the distribution of some of the land and freshwater shells of India: Part I. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 26 (4): 245–254. Calcutta.
- Solem, A. (1966). Some non-marine mollusks from Thailand, with notes on classification of the Helicarionidae. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis, 24: 1–110, 3 plates.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
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- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). The genera Cryptogirasia and Cryptosoma. The Nautilus. 26(9): 70.
