Megalacron is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.[1]
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| Shell of Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Hadrinae |
| Genus: | Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Helix novaegeorgiensis Cox, 1870 | |
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Species
editSpecies within the genus Megalacron include:
- Megalacron admiralitatis (I. Rensch, 1931)
- Megalacron alfredi (Cox, 1871)
- Megalacron ambrosia (Angas, 1868)
- Megalacron bequaerti Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron boivini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1841)
- Megalacron boyerii (P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
- Megalacron coniformis (Férussac, 1821)
- Megalacron coxiana (Angas, 1868)
- Megalacron densestriata (Fulton, 1902)
- Megalacron isabellae (Jaeckel & Schlesch, 1952)
- Megalacron juttingae Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron klaarwateri (I. Rensch, 1931)
- Megalacron lambei (Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Megalacron lufensis (Thiele, 1928)
- Megalacron macfarlanei (Cox, 1873)
- Megalacron melanesia Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron migratoria (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (Cox, 1870)
- Megalacron periwonensis (Dell, 1955)
- Megalacron phaeostoma (Pfeiffer, 1877)
- Megalacron sellersi (Cox, 1872)
- Megalacron spadicea (Fulton, 1902)
- Megalacron tabarensis (I. Rensch, 1933)
- Megalacron tizianoi Delsaerdt, 2016
- Species brought into synonymy
- Megalacron huberi Thach, 2017: synonym of Chloritis khammouanensis Inkhavilay & Panha, 2019 (secondary junior homonym of Chloritis huberi Thach, 2016; Chloritis khammouanensis is a replacement name)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalacron I. Rensch, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851521 on 2021-02-10
- Rensch, I. (1934). Systematische und tiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Landschneckenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels I. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Neue Folgen. 3: 445-488
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
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