''Megaustenia'' is a
genus 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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the subfamily
Ariophantinae of the family
Ariophantidae.
[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
''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''
(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
''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''
(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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Ariophantidae