Sphaerospira

Not to be confused with Sphaerospora.

Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.^[1]

Sphaerospira
Shell of Sphaeospira blomfieldi (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Hadrinae
Genus:	Sphaerospira Mörch, 1867
Type species
Helix fraseri Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
Synonyms[1]
Chloritis (Sphaerospira) Mörch, 1867 Varohadra Iredale, 1933 (name not available. published without description)

Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus Thersites.

Species

Species within the genus Sphaerospira include:

• Sphaerospira arthuriana (Cox, 1873)
• Sphaerospira bencarlessi Stanisic & Potter, 2010
• Sphaerospira blomfieldi (Cox, 1864)
• Sphaerospira fraseri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
• Sphaerospira informis (Mousson, 1869)
• Sphaerospira mortenseni (Iredale, 1929)
• Sphaerospira mossmani (Brazier, 1875)
• Sphaerospira oconnellensis (Cox, 1871)
• Sphaerospira rockhamptonensis (Cox, 1873)
• Sphaerospira sidneyi (Iredale, 1933)

Species brought into synonymy

• Sphaerospira macleayi (Cox, 1865): synonym of Bentosites macleayi (Cox, 1865)
• Sphaerospira parallela Iredale, 1937: synonym of Sphaerospira fraseri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (junior synonym)
• Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)
• Sphaerospira whartoni (Cox, 1871): synonym of Temporena whartoni (Cox, 1871)