Megalophaedusa

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

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.^[1]

This genus occurs in Japan.

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)

• Nomenclator Zoologicus info

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