Megalophaedusa

Megalophaedusa is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Megalophaedusa
Megalophaedusa martensi. The individual in the photo has a shell 45.5 mm long and weighs 3.2g with the soft parts intact.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Clausilioidea
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Megalophaedusa Boettger, 1877 [1]
Synonyms
Aprosphyma A. J. Wagner, 1920 (junior synonym) Clausilia (Megalophaedusa) O. Boettger, 1877 Decolliphaedusa Azuma, 1982 Hemiphaedusa (Pinguiphaedusa) Azuma, 1982 Hemiphaedusa (Placeophaedusa) Minato, 1994 Megalophaedusa (Aulacophaedusa) Habe, 1958 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Dimphaedusa) Motochin & Ueshima, 2017 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Megalophaedusa) O. Boettger, 1877 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Mesozaptyx) Kuroda, 1963 (not available: nomen nudum) Megalophaedusa (Mundiphaedusa) Minato, 1979 Megalophaedusa (Neophaedusa) Kuroda & Minato, 1975 · alternate representation Megalophadeusa (Pauciphaedusa) Minato & Habe, 1983 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Pinguiphaedusa) Azuma, 1982 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Tyrannophaedusa) Pilsbry, 1900 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Tyrannophaedusoides) Motochin & Ueshima, 2017 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Ventriphaedusa) Azuma, 1982 · alternate representation Megalophaedusa (Vitriphaedusa) Azuma, 1982 · alternate representation Mundiphaedusa Minato, 1979 Mundiphaedusa (Aulacophaedusa) Habe, 1958 Neophaedusa Kuroda & Minato, 1975 (original rank) Pauciphaedusa Minato & Habe, 1983 Pinguiphaedusa Azuma, 1982 Spinulaphaedusa Minato, 1994 Tyrannophaedusa Pilsbry, 1900 Tyrannophaedusa (Aulacophaedusa) Habe, 1958 Tyrannophaedusa (Decolliphaedusa) Azuma, 1982 Tyrannophaedusa (Tyrannophaedusa) Pilsbry, 1900 Ventriphaedusa Azuma, 1982 Vitriphaedusa Azuma, 1982

This genus occurs in Japan.

Species

Species within the genus Megalophaedusa include: [2]

• Megalophaedusa concrescens (Pilsbry 1905)
• Megalophaedusa hickanis mikawa Pilsbry 1905
• Megalophaedusa hiraseana (Pilsbry 1901)
• Megalophaedusa martensi (Von Martens 1860)
  • Megalophaedusa martensi tinctilabris (Pilsbry 1902)
• Megalophaedusa spelaeonis (Kuroda & Minato, 1975)
• Megalophaedusa vasta Boettger 1877
• Megalophaedusa yokohamensis (Crosse 1876)

References

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info