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Megaustenia T. D. A. Cockerell, 1913
995745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:995745)
accepted
Genus
Vitrina praestans A. Gould, 1843 accepted as Megaustenia praestans (A. Gould, 1843) (type by typification of replaced name)
Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Cryptosoma Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]; Megaustenia is a replacement name
Helicarion (Cryptosoma) Theobald, 1857 · unaccepted
- Species Megaustenia annhiae (Thach & F. Huber, 2017)
- Species Megaustenia balansai (Mabille, 1889)
- Species Megaustenia birmanica (R. A. Philippi, 1847)
- Species Megaustenia cochinchinensis (Morelet, 1866)
- Species Megaustenia fragilis (Möllendorff, 1901)
- Species Megaustenia heliciformis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Species Megaustenia huberi (Thach, 2016)
- Species Megaustenia imperator (A. Gould, 1859)
- Species Megaustenia inusitata (Godwin-Austen, 1898)
- Species Megaustenia khyoungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
- Species Megaustenia malefica (Mabille, 1887)
- Species Megaustenia messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
- Species Megaustenia praestans (A. Gould, 1843)
- Species Megaustenia rondonyi (H. Fischer, 1898)
- Species Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855)
- Species Megaustenia tongkingensis (Möllendorff, 1901)
- Species Megaustenia unguiculus (Morelet, 1865)
- Species Megaustenia russeola (Morelet, 1865) accepted as Durgella russeola (Morelet, 1865) (unaccepted combination)
- Species Megaustenia siamense (Haines, 1855) accepted as Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855) (incorrect gender of species name)
- Species Megaustenia tecta (Souleyet, 1852) accepted as Tanychlamys tecta (Souleyet, 1852) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
feminine
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). The genera <em>Cryptogirasia</em> and <em>Cryptosoma</em>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 26(6): 70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738275 [details]
Taxonomy Nom. nov. pro Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857, non Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]
Taxonomy Nom. nov. pro Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857, non Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megaustenia T. D. A. Cockerell, 1913. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995745 on 2025-04-01
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original description
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1912). The genera <em>Cryptogirasia</em> and <em>Cryptosoma</em>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 26(6): 70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738275 [details]
original description (of Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857) Theobald, W. (1857). Notes on the distribution of some of the land and freshwater shells of India: Part I. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 26 (4): 245-254. Calcutta.
page(s): 252 [details]
additional source Cockerell, T. D. A. (1929). The genus <i>Megaustenia</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 43(2): 51-54., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8515099 [details]
additional source Burton, D. W. (1982). How to be sluggish. <em>Tuatara.</em> 25(2): 48-64., available online at https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio25Tuat02-t1-body-d2.html [details]
additional source Solem, A. (1966). Some non-marine mollusks from Thailand, with notes on classification of the Helicarionidae. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis, 24: 1-110, 3 plates.
page(s): 77 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857) Theobald, W. (1857). Notes on the distribution of some of the land and freshwater shells of India: Part I. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 26 (4): 245-254. Calcutta.
page(s): 252 [details]
additional source Cockerell, T. D. A. (1929). The genus <i>Megaustenia</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 43(2): 51-54., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8515099 [details]
additional source Burton, D. W. (1982). How to be sluggish. <em>Tuatara.</em> 25(2): 48-64., available online at https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio25Tuat02-t1-body-d2.html [details]
additional source Solem, A. (1966). Some non-marine mollusks from Thailand, with notes on classification of the Helicarionidae. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis, 24: 1-110, 3 plates.
page(s): 77 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Nom. nov. pro Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857, non Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea] [details]
