Sphaerospira

Not to be confused with Sphaerospora.

Sphaerospira
Shell of Sphaeospira blomfieldi (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Hadrinae
Genus:
Mörch, 1867
Type species
Helix fraseri
Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
Synonyms[1]
  • Chloritis (Sphaerospira) Mörch, 1867
  • Varohadra Iredale, 1933 (name not available. published without description)

Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs 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  • Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)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. ^ 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


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