Sphaerospira
Genus of gastropods
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Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.[1]
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| 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] | |
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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- Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)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)
