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Megalacron

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Megalacron
Shell of Megalacron novaegeorgiensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Hadrinae
Genus: Megalacron
I. Rensch, 1934
Type species
Helix novaegeorgiensis Cox, 1870
Synonyms
  • 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)

Megalacron is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.[1]

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