Sphaerospira
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| Sphaerospira | |
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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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Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Some authorities consider this to be merely a subgenus of the genus Thersites.
