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Megastomia Monterosato, 1884 
AphiaID: 224395

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > [unassigned] Heterobranchia (Infraclass) > Pyramidelloidea (Superfamily) > Pyramidellidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Odostomia conspicua Alder, 1850 (type by original designation)
Parent Pyramidellidae Gray, 1840
Synonymised
taxa		  Evelynella Laws, 1940 †
 Odostomia (Megastomia) Monterosato, 1884
 Stomega Dall & Bartsch, 1904 (unnecessary replacement name for Megastomia)
Source  additional source: Robba E. (2013) Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 144: 1-191. [April 2013] [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Megastomia aliter Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia bedoti (Hornung & Mermod, 1924)
Species Megastomia binhdinhensis (Saurin, 1958)
Species Megastomia broti (Hornung & Mermod, 1924)
Species Megastomia canaria (Hedley, 1907)
Species Megastomia canina Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1884)
Species Megastomia conspicua (Alder, 1850)
Species Megastomia corimbensis Schander, 1994
Species Megastomia coseli Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia elata (Saurin, 1958)
Species Megastomia gestroides (Saurin, 1958)
Species Megastomia gutta Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia palmaensis Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia pseudoperforata (Nomura, 1939)
Species Megastomia pyramidata (Laseron, 1951)
Species Megastomia regina (Thiele, 1925)
Species Megastomia ruris Peñas & Rolan, 1999
Species Megastomia simplex (Angas, 1871)
Species Megastomia subcarina (Laseron, 1951)
Species Megastomia sulcifera (E. A. Smith, 1871)
Species Megastomia troncosoi Peñas & Rolán, 2002
Species Megastomia turbiniformis Peñas & Rolán, 1999
Species Megastomia winfriedi Peñas & Rolán, 1999
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
Image 
Odostomia conspicua
[image from typetaxon]
Odostomia conspicua
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224395
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-15 08:17:50Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2012-03-25 21:13:38Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2013-05-10 20:05:24Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Megastomia Monterosato, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224395 on 2013-05-20
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