Megalobulimus
| Megalobulimus | |
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| Megalobulimus parafragilior | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Strophocheilidae |
| Genus: | Megalobulimus , 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus garciamoreni K. Miller, 1878 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Megalobulimus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the subfamily within the family Strophocheilidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]
Megalobulimus is the type genus of the subfamily .
Species[]
Species within the genus Megalobulimus include (all species from Brazil are listed):[3]
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- (Bland & Binney, 1872)
- Megalobulimus amandus Simone, 2012[4]
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- (Sowerby, 1838)
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Megalobulimus cardosoi (Lange-de-Morretes, 1952)
- (Pilsbry, 1930)
- (Hupé, 1857)
- (Mörch, 1852)
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- (Albers, 1850)
- Fontenelle, Simone & Cavallari, 2021
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- Falconeri, 1994
- Ihering, 1928
- Borda & Ramírez, 2013
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- (Barattini & Ledón, 1949)
- Megalobulimus fragilior (Ihering, 1901)
- (Leme, 1964)
- (Martens, 1876)
- Megalobulimus grandis (Martens, 1885)
- (Rang, 1831)
- (Hidalgo, 1870)
- (Scopoli, 1786)
- † (Ihering, 1904)
- (Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Simone, 2018
- (Tschudi, 1852)
- Borda & Ramírez, 2016
- (Fulton, 1914)
- (E. von Martens, 1876)
- (Pilsbry, 1895)
- Megalobulimus jaguarunensis Fontenelle, Cavallari & Simone, 2014[5]
- (Leme, 1964)
- (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- (Lange-de-Morretes, 1952)
- (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- Albers, 1854
- Megalobulimus lopesi Leme, 1989
- Falconeri, 1995
- (Sowerby, 1825)
- Simone & Leme, 1998
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus oblongus (Müller, 1774)
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- (Pilsbry, 1895)
- Megalobulimus ovatus (Müller, 1774)
- Megalobulimus parafragilior Leme & Indrusiak, 1990
- Megalobulimus paranaguensis (Pilsbry & Ihering, 1900)
- (Pilsbry, 1901)
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus popelairianus (Nyst, 1845) - synonym: Strophocheilus popelairianus
- Megalobulimus proclivis (Martens, 1888)
- (Bequaert, 1948)
- Simone & Leme, 1998
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- (Ihering & Pilsbry, 1900)
- (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- (Jousseaume, 1884)
- (Fulton, 1903)
- Borda & Ramírez, 2016
- (Spix, 1827)
- (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- (Fulton, 1905)
- (Pilsbry, 1926)
- † Miquel & Manceñido, 1999
- Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- (Ihering & Pilsbry, 1901)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Megalobulimus bereniceae (Lange-de-Morretes, 1952): synonym of Megalobulimus intertextus (Pilsbry, 1895) (superseded combination)
- Megalobulimus inambarisense [sic]: synonym of Megalobulimus inambarisensis Borda & Ramírez, 2016 (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Megalobulimus torii Lange-de-Morretes, 1937: synonym of (Ihering & Pilsbry, 1901)
- Megalobulimus valenciennesi (L. Pfeiffer, 1842): synonym of Megalobulimus valenciennesii (L. Pfeiffer, 1842) (incorrect spelling)
Human use[]
Shells of terrestrial snails, mainly of the genus Megalobulimus, are found in fluvial shellmound (called sambaqui in Brazil) on the Capelinha archaeological site from paleoamerican culture of early Holocene.[6]
The shell of Megalobulimus sp. (local name: "churito") is used in the traditional ethnomedicine of Northwest Argentina when babies are hyperactive and cannot sleep well, then it is advised to put a shell under a pillow.[7]
References[]
- ^ Miller K. (1878). Malak. Bl. 25: 172.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalobulimus K. Miller, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=882407 on 2021-07-06
- ^ (in Portuguese) Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. PDF Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (with English abstract)
- ^ Simone, L. R. L. (2012). "Taxonomical study on a sample of pulmonates from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, with description of a new genus and four new species (Mollusca: Orthalicidae and Megalobulimidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 52 (36): 431–439. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492012021600001.
- ^ Fontenelle, J. H.; Cavallari, D.C.; Simone, L.R.L. "A new species of Megalobulimus (Gastropoda, Strophocheilidae) from Brazilian shell mounds" (PDF). Strombus. 21 (1–2): 30–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02.
- ^ Eggers S., Parks M., Grupe G. & Reinhard K. J. (2011). "Paleoamerican Diet, Migration and Morphology in Brazil: Archaeological Complexity of the Earliest Americans". PLoS ONE 6(9): e23962. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023962.
- ^ Hilgert N. I. & Gil G. E. (2007). "Reproductive medicine in northwest Argentina: traditional and institutional systems". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 19. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-19.
Further reading[]
- Kawano T. & Moreira Leme J. L. (1994). "Chromosomes of three species of Megalobulimus (Gastropoda: Mesurethra: Megalobulimidae) from Brazil". Malacological review 27(1-2): 47-52. [1]
- Borda V., Ramírez R. & Romero P. (2010). "Glándula pediosa de moluscos terrestres y sus implicancias evolutivas, con énfasis en Megalobulimus / Pediose gland in land snails and its evolutionary implications, with emphasis on Megalobulimus." 17(1): . 43-52. PDF.
- Rodrigo Salvador, José Fontenelle, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani: Taxonomic reassessment of Megalobulimus toriii (Gastropoda, Strophocheilidae); Journal of Conchology issue 3 vol. 43 p 313-320, 2019.
External links[]
- Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
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