''Sphaerospira'' 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
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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in 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. Sphaerospira Mörch, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818564 on 9 February 2021]
Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus
''Thersites''
Species
Species within the genus ''Sphaerospira'' include:
* ''
Sphaerospira arthuriana''
(Cox, 1873)
* ''
Sphaerospira bencarlessi''
Stanisic & Potter, 2010
* ''
Sphaerospira blomfieldi''
(Cox, 1864)
* ''
Sphaerospira fraseri''
(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
* ''
Sphaerospira informis''
(Mousson, 1869)
* ''
Sphaerospira mortenseni''
(Iredale, 1929)
* ''
Sphaerospira mossmani''
(Brazier, 1875)
* ''
Sphaerospira oconnellensis''
(Cox, 1871)
* ''
Sphaerospira rockhamptonensis''
(Cox, 1873)
* ''
Sphaerospira sidneyi''
(Iredale, 1933)
; Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Sphaerospira macleayi''
(Cox, 1865): synonym of ''
Bentosites macleayi''
(Cox, 1865)
* ''Sphaerospira parallela''
Iredale, 1937: synonym of ''Sphaerospira fraseri''
(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (junior synonym)
* ''Sphaerospira rawnesleyi''
(Cox, 1873): synonym of ''
Steorra rawnesleyi''
(Cox, 1873) (
superseded combination
In taxonomy, a superseded combination is a notice of change to the binomial nomenclature of the accepted name of a species. This happens when a species is moved to a new genus after the initial species description. The original name is called a ...
)
* ''Sphaerospira whartoni''
(Cox, 1871): synonym of ''
Temporena whartoni
''Temporena whartoni'', common name the Holbourne Island banded snail, is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Temporena whartoni (Cox, ...
''
(Cox, 1871)
References
External links
*
Biologie.uni-ulm infoMörch O.A.L. (1867). Abrégé de l'histoire de la classification moderne des mollusques basée principalement sur l'armature linguale. Journal de Conchyliologie. 15: 232–258.Pilsbry, H. A. (1890–1891). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, Second series: Pulmonata. Vol. VI. Helicidae Vol. IV. pp. 1–64, pls 1–15
Camaenidae
Gastropod genera
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