''Megalacron'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851521 on 2021-02-10]
Species
Species within the genus ''Megalacron'' include:
* ''
Megalacron admiralitatis''
(I. Rensch, 1931)
* ''
Megalacron alfredi''
(Cox, 1871)
* ''
Megalacron ambrosia''
(Angas, 1868)
* ''
Megalacron bequaerti''
Clench & Turner, 1964
* ''
Megalacron boivini''
(Petit de la Saussaye, 1841)
* ''
Megalacron boyerii''
(P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
* ''
Megalacron coniformis
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Megalacron coxiana
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Angas, 1868)
* ''
Megalacron densestriata
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Fulton, 1902)
* ''
Megalacron isabellae
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed t ...
''
(Jaeckel & Schlesch, 1952)
* ''
Megalacron juttingae
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
Clench & Turner, 1964
* ''
Megalacron klaarwateri
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(I. Rensch, 1931)
* ''
Megalacron lambei
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Megalacron lufensis
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Thiele, 1928)
* ''
Megalacron macfarlanei
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Cox, 1873)
* ''
Megalacron melanesia
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
Clench & Turner, 1964
* ''
Megalacron migratoria
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Megalacron novaegeorgiensis''
(Cox, 1870)
* ''
Megalacron periwonensis''
(Dell, 1955)
* ''
Megalacron phaeostoma
''Megalacron'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Regist ...
''
(Pfeiffer, 1877)
* ''
Megalacron sellersi''
(Cox, 1872)
* ''
Megalacron spadicea''
(Fulton, 1902)
* ''
Megalacron tabarensis''
(I. Rensch, 1933)
* ''
Megalacron tizianoi''
Delsaerdt, 2016
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Megalacron huberi''
Thach, 2017: synonym of ''
Chloritis khammouanensis''
Inkhavilay & Panha, 2019 (secondary junior homonym of ''Chloritis huberi''
Thach, 2016; ''Chloritis khammouanensis'' is a replacement name)
References
* Rensch, I. (1934). Systematische und tiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Landschneckenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels I. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Neue Folgen. 3: 445-488
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
*
Camaenidae
{{Camaenidae-stub