Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.[1]
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| Shell of Sphaeospira blomfieldi (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: | Sphaerospira Mörch, 1867 |
| Type species | |
| Helix fraseri Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
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Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus Thersites. [1]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Sphaerospira include:
- Sphaerospira arthuriana (Cox, 1873)
- Sphaerospira bencarlessi Stanisic & Potter, 2010
- Sphaerospira blomfieldi (Cox, 1864)
- Sphaerospira fraseri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
- Sphaerospira informis (Mousson, 1869)
- Sphaerospira mortenseni (Iredale, 1929)
- Sphaerospira mossmani (Brazier, 1875)
- Sphaerospira oconnellensis (Cox, 1871)
- Sphaerospira rockhamptonensis (Cox, 1873)
- Sphaerospira sidneyi (Iredale, 1933)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Sphaerospira macleayi (Cox, 1865): synonym of Bentosites macleayi (Cox, 1865)
- Sphaerospira parallela Iredale, 1937: synonym of Sphaerospira fraseri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (junior synonym)
- Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)
- Sphaerospira whartoni (Cox, 1871): synonym of Temporena whartoni (Cox, 1871)
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sphaerospira Mörch, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818564 on 9 February 2021
External links
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Media related to Sphaerospira at Wikimedia Commons- Biologie.uni-ulm info
- Mörch O.A.L. (1867). Abrégé de l'histoire de la classification moderne des mollusques basée principalement sur l'armature linguale. Journal de Conchyliologie. 15: 232–258.
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1890–1891). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, Second series: Pulmonata. Vol. VI. Helicidae Vol. IV. pp. 1–64, pls 1–15
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