Megaustenia

Megaustenia
Shell of Megaustenia rondonyi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea
Family:	Ariophantidae
Genus:	Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912
Type species
Vitrina praestans Gould, 1843
Synonyms
Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cryptosoma Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]; Megaustenia is a replacement name) Helicarion (Cryptosoma) Theobald, 1857

Megaustenia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily of the family Ariophantidae.^[1]

Species[]

• (Thach & F. Huber, 2017)
• (Mabille, 1889)
• (Philippi, 1847)
• (Morelet, 1866)
• (Möllendorff, 1901)
• (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• (Thach, 2016)
• (A. Gould, 1859)
• (Godwin-Austen, 1898)
• (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
• (J. Mabille, 1887)
• (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
• (Gould, 1843)
• (H. Fischer, 1898)
• (Haines, 1855)
• (Möllendorff, 1901)
• (Morelet, 1865)

Species brought into synonymy

• Megaustenia russeola (Morelet, 1865): synonym of (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 (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

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