''Megaustenia'' is a
genus
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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
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
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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 ...
gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Ariophantinae of the family
Ariophantidae
Ariophantidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the Taxonomy of ...
.
[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''
(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
''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.marinesp ...
''
(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
* 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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Ariophantidae