MolluscaBase name details
Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857
998555 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:998555)
unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Cryptosoma Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]; Megaustenia is a replacement name)
Genus
Vitrina praestans A. Gould, 1843 accepted as Megaustenia praestans (A. Gould, 1843) (type by monotypy)
Helicarion (Cryptosoma) Theobald, 1857 · unaccepted
- Subgenus Cryptosoma (Damayantia) Issel, 1874 accepted as Damayantia Issel, 1874 (unaccepted rank)
- Species Cryptosoma fragile Möllendorff, 1901 accepted as Megaustenia fragilis (Möllendorff, 1901) (original combination)
- Species Cryptosoma imperator (A. Gould, 1858) accepted as Megaustenia imperator imperator (A. Gould, 1859)
- Species Cryptosoma inusitatum Godwin-Austen, 1898 accepted as Megaustenia inusitata (Godwin-Austen, 1898) (original combination)
- Species Cryptosoma khyoungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1888) accepted as Megaustenia khyoungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1888) (unaccepted combination)
- Species Cryptosoma praestans (A. Gould, 1843) accepted as Megaustenia praestans (A. Gould, 1843) (unaccepted combination)
- Species Cryptosoma siamense (Haines, 1855) accepted as Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855) (unaccepted combination)
- Species Cryptosoma austeni Collinge, 1898 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
feminine
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]
page(s): 252 [details]
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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. (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]
page(s): 252 [details]
additional source 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]
