Biology:Sphaerospira
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Sphaerospira | |
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| Shell of Sphaeospira blomfieldi (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mollusca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Gastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Heterobranchia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Stylommatophora |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Helicoidea |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Camaenidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Hadrinae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Sphaerospira Mörch, 1867 |
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| Helix fraseri Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 | |
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Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae. [1]
Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus Thersites. [1]
Species
Species 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- Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 2021-02-09
External links
- 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
Wikidata ☰ Q3073975 entry
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