Megaustenia
Shell of Megaustenia rondonyi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Genus: Megaustenia
Cockerell, 1912
Type species
Vitrina praestans Gould, 1843
Synonyms
  • Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cryptosoma Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]; Megaustenia is a replacement name)
  • Helicarion (Cryptosoma) Theobald, 1857

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

  1. ↑ 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.
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