Megalacron

Megalacron
Shell of Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
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
Synonyms
Emiralena Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Glomerata I. Rensch, 1934 (junior synonym) Helix (Pileolus) Lesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pileolus G.B. Sowerby I, 1823) Lisprelia Iredale, 1941 (objective junior synonym) Lullicola Iredale, 1941 Papuina (Glomerata) I. Rensch, 1934 (junior synonym) Papuina (Megalacron) I. Rensch, 1934 (original rank) Papuina (Pinnadena) Iredale, 1941 Pinnadena Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Solmopina Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym)

Megalacron is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.

Species

Species 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

• 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

• Media related to Megalacron at Wikimedia Commons

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