Megaspiridae is a

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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 ...

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s in the superfamily

Orthalicoidea Orthalicoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Orthalicoidei of the suborder Helicina.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Simpulopsidae Schileyko, 1999. Accessed through: Wor ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". '' Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology'' 141(1): 1-20. . The family Megaspiridae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Megaspiridae include: * '' Callionepion'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1899 * '' Megaspira'' Lea, 1838 - type genus of the family Megaspiridae * '' Thaumastus'' Albers, 1860Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. ''

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- synonym: ''Tholus'' Strebel, 1909Abbott R. T. (1989). ''Compendium of Landshells''. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida. Breure A. S. H. (1979). "Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca)". ''

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;Synonyms: * ''Pyrgelix'' H. Beck, 1837: synonym of ''Megaspira'' I. Lea, 1836

References

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