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Megastomia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Megastomia
Monterosato, 1884
Synonyms[1]
  • † Evelynella Laws, 1940
  • Odostomia (Megastomia) Monterosato, 1884
  • Stomega Dall & Bartsch, 1904 (unnecessary replacement name for Megastomia)

Megastomia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Over fifty species worldwide have been placed in (sub)genus Megastomia Monterosato, 1884 by a number of authors (e.g. Saurin, 1959, 1962; Peñas & Rolán, 1999; Giannuzzi-Savelli et al. (2014). On the basis of 16s mtDNA sequence data, Schander et al. (2003) distinguished, and placed in Megastomia, two species (M. conoidea (Brocchi, 1814) and M. corimbensis (Schander, 1994)), which clustered separately from other species placed in Odostomia Fleming, 1813. However Høisæter (2014: 34) correctly pointed out that the type species Odostomia conspicua Alder, 1850 "is a typical Odostomia s.s. and has few traits in common with O. conoidea". Considering the large number of species involved, and considering that for most of these species Odostomia is probably not more appropriate, the published combinations with Megastomia are nevertheless retained by the database WoRMS as "accepted" until more data become available.

Species

Species within the genus Megastomia include:[1]

The following species were brought into synonymy:[1]
  • Megastomia elata (Saurin, 1958): synonym of Megastomia saurini (Corgan & Van Aartsen, 1998)
  • Megastomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1884: synonym of Odostomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1814)
  • Megastomia conspicua (Alder, 1850): synonym of Odostomia conspicua Alder, 1850

References

  1. ^ a b c d Megastomia Monterosato, 1884. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 January 2019.
  2. ^ Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

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