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