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Genus of gastropods
| Megalacron
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| Shell of Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Order:
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Stylommatophora
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| Superfamily:
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Helicoidea
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| Family:
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Camaenidae
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| Subfamily:
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Hadrinae
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| Genus:
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Megalacron
I. Rensch, 1934
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| Type species
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Helix novaegeorgiensis Cox, 1870
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| Synonyms
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- Emiralena Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym)
- Glomerata I. Rensch, 1934 (junior synonym)
- Helix (Pileolus) Lesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pileolus G.B. Sowerby I, 1823)
- Lisprelia Iredale, 1941 (objective junior synonym)
- Lullicola Iredale, 1941
- Papuina (Glomerata) I. Rensch, 1934 (junior synonym)
- Papuina (Megalacron) I. Rensch, 1934 (original rank)
- Papuina (Pinnadena) Iredale, 1941
- Pinnadena Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym)
- Solmopina Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym)
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Megalacron is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Megalacron include:
- Megalacron admiralitatis (I. Rensch, 1931)
- Megalacron alfredi (Cox, 1871)
- Megalacron ambrosia (Angas, 1868)
- Megalacron bequaerti Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron boivini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1841)
- Megalacron boyerii (P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
- Megalacron coniformis (Férussac, 1821)
- Megalacron coxiana (Angas, 1868)
- Megalacron densestriata (Fulton, 1902)
- Megalacron isabellae (Jaeckel & Schlesch, 1952)
- Megalacron juttingae Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron klaarwateri (I. Rensch, 1931)
- Megalacron lambei (Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Megalacron lufensis (Thiele, 1928)
- Megalacron macfarlanei (Cox, 1873)
- Megalacron melanesia Clench & Turner, 1964
- Megalacron migratoria (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (Cox, 1870)
- Megalacron periwonensis (Dell, 1955)
- Megalacron phaeostoma (Pfeiffer, 1877)
- Megalacron sellersi (Cox, 1872)
- Megalacron spadicea (Fulton, 1902)
- Megalacron tabarensis (I. Rensch, 1933)
- Megalacron tizianoi Delsaerdt, 2016
- Species brought into synonymy
- Megalacron huberi Thach, 2017: synonym of Chloritis khammouanensis Inkhavilay & Panha, 2019 (secondary junior homonym of Chloritis huberi Thach, 2016; Chloritis khammouanensis is a replacement name)
References
- Rensch, I. (1934). Systematische und tiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Landschneckenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels I. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Neue Folgen. 3: 445-488
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
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