Sphaerospira

Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.

Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus Thersites. http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/cgi-bin/system/zoosys.pl?id=176193&stufe=7&typ=ZOO&sid=T&only=no&syno=no&lang=e

Species

Species within the genus Sphaerospira include:

• Sphaerospira arthuriana <small>(Cox, 1873)</small>
• Sphaerospira bencarlessi <small>Stanisic & Potter, 2010</small>
• Sphaerospira blomfieldi <small>(Cox, 1864)</small>
• Sphaerospira fraseri <small>(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)</small>
• Sphaerospira informis <small>(Mousson, 1869)</small>
• Sphaerospira mortenseni <small>(Iredale, 1929)</small>
• Sphaerospira mossmani <small>(Brazier, 1875)</small>
• Sphaerospira oconnellensis <small>(Cox, 1871)</small>
• Sphaerospira rockhamptonensis <small>(Cox, 1873)</small>
• Sphaerospira sidneyi <small>(Iredale, 1933)</small>

• Sphaerospira macleayi <small>(Cox, 1865)</small>: synonym of Bentosites macleayi <small>(Cox, 1865)</small>
• Sphaerospira parallela <small>Iredale, 1937</small>: synonym of Sphaerospira fraseri <small>(Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)</small> (junior synonym)
• Sphaerospira rawnesleyi <small>(Cox, 1873)</small>: synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi <small>(Cox, 1873)</small> (superseded combination)
• Sphaerospira whartoni <small>(Cox, 1871)</small>: synonym of Temporena whartoni <small>(Cox, 1871)</small>

References

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