Megaustenia

Megaustenia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariophantinae of the family Ariophantidae.^[1]

Megaustenia
Shell of Megaustenia rondonyi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea
Family:	Ariophantidae
Genus:	Megaustenia Cockerell, 1912
Type species
Vitrina praestans Gould, 1843
Synonyms
Cryptosoma Theobald, 1857 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cryptosoma Milne-Edwards, 1837 [Crustacea]; Megaustenia is a replacement name) Helicarion (Cryptosoma) Theobald, 1857

Species

• Megaustenia annhiae (Thach & F. Huber, 2017)
• Megaustenia balansai (Mabille, 1889)
• Megaustenia birmanica (Philippi, 1847)
• Megaustenia cochinchinensis (Morelet, 1866)
• Megaustenia fragilis (Möllendorff, 1901)
• Megaustenia heliciformis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Megaustenia huberi (Thach, 2016)
• Megaustenia imperator (A. Gould, 1859)
• Megaustenia inusitata (Godwin-Austen, 1898)
• Megaustenia khyoungensis (Godwin-Austen, 1888)
• Megaustenia malefica (J. Mabille, 1887)
• Megaustenia messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
• Megaustenia praestans (Gould, 1843)
• Megaustenia rondonyi (H. Fischer, 1898)
• Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855)
• Megaustenia tongkingensis (Möllendorff, 1901)
• Megaustenia unguiculus (Morelet, 1865)

Species brought into synonymy

• Megaustenia russeola (Morelet, 1865): synonym of Durgella russeola (Morelet, 1865) (unaccepted combination)
• Megaustenia siamense (Haines, 1855): synonym of Megaustenia siamensis (Haines, 1855) (incorrect gender of species name)
• Megaustenia tecta (Souleyet, 1852): synonym of Macrochlamys tecta (Souleyet, 1852)