''Megaustenia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of air-breathing land snails,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. 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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family

Ariophantidae Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi- slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Distribu ...

.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

Species

* ''

Megaustenia annhiae ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Thach & F. Huber, 2017) * ''

Megaustenia balansai ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912 ...

'' (Mabille, 1889) * ''

Megaustenia birmanica ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Philippi, 1847) * ''

Megaustenia cochinchinensis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Morelet, 1866) * ''

Megaustenia fragilis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1901) * ''

Megaustenia heliciformis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) * ''

Megaustenia huberi ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ...

'' (Thach, 2016) * ''

Megaustenia imperator ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (A. Gould, 1859) * ''

Megaustenia inusitata ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Godwin-Austen, 1898) * ''

Megaustenia khyoungensis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Godwin-Austen, 1888) * ''

Megaustenia malefica ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (J. Mabille, 1887) * ''

Megaustenia messageri ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) * ''

Megaustenia praestans ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Gould, 1843) * ''

Megaustenia rondonyi ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (H. Fischer, 1898) * ''

Megaustenia siamensis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Haines, 1855) * ''

Megaustenia tongkingensis ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1901) * ''

Megaustenia unguiculus ''Megaustenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912. Accessed throug ...

'' (Morelet, 1865) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Megaustenia russeola'' (Morelet, 1865): synonym of ''

Durgella russeola ''Durgella'' is a genus of glass snails in the subfamily Durgellinae of the family Helicarionidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Durgella W. T. Blanford, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marine ...

'' (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 ''Macrochlamys'' is a large genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Macrochlamys Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://w ...

'' (Souleyet, 1852)

References

* 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

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). The genera Cryptogirasia and Cryptosoma. The Nautilus. 26(9): 70.
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