Megalobulimus
| Megalobulimus | |
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| Megalobulimus parafragilior | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Strophocheilidae |
| Genus: | Megalobulimus K. Miller, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus garciamoreni K. Miller, 1878 | |
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Megalobulimus is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Megalobuliminae within the family Strophocheilidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
Megalobulimus is the type genus of the subfamily Megalobuliminae.
Species
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Species within the genus Megalobulimus include:[2]
- Megalobulimus abbreviatus (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus albescens (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus albus (Bland & Binney, 1872)
- Megalobulimus amandus Simone, 2012[3]
- Megalobulimus auritus (Sowerby, 1838)
- Megalobulimus bertae Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus bronni (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Megalobulimus capillaceus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Megalobulimus cardosoi (Lange-de-Morretes, 1952)
- Megalobulimus carrikeri (Pilsbry, 1930)
- Megalobulimus chionostoma (Mörch, 1852)
- Megalobulimus conicus (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus crassus (Albers, 1850)
- Megalobulimus diluvianus Fontenelle & Salvador, 2023
- Megalobulimus dryades Fontenelle, Simone & Cavallari, 2021
- Megalobulimus elongatus (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus elsae Falconeri, 1994
- Megalobulimus felipponei Ihering, 1928
- Megalobulimus florezi Borda & Ramírez, 2013
- Megalobulimus foreli (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus formicacorsii (Barattini & Ledón, 1949)
- Megalobulimus fragilior (Ihering, 1901)
- Megalobulimus garbeanus (Leme, 1964)
- Megalobulimus garciamoreni (K. Miller, 1878)
- Megalobulimus globosus (Martens, 1876)
- Megalobulimus granulosus (Rang, 1831)
- Megalobulimus gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870)
- Megalobulimus haemastomus (Scopoli, 1786)
- †Megalobulimus hauthali (Ihering, 1904)
- Megalobulimus hector (Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Megalobulimus helicoides Simone, 2018
- Megalobulimus huascari (Tschudi, 1852)
- Megalobulimus inambarisensis Borda & Ramírez, 2016
- Megalobulimus indigens (Fulton, 1914)
- Megalobulimus intercedens (E. von Martens, 1876)
- Megalobulimus intertextus (Pilsbry, 1895)
- Megalobulimus jaguarunensis Fontenelle, Cavallari & Simone, 2014[4]
- Megalobulimus klappenbachi (Leme, 1964)
- Megalobulimus lacunosus (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Megalobulimus leonardosi (Lange-de-Morretes, 1952)
- Megalobulimus leucostoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- Megalobulimus lichtensteini Albers, 1854
- Megalobulimus lopesi Leme, 1989
- Megalobulimus martensianus (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Megalobulimus mauricius Falconeri, 1995
- Megalobulimus maximus (Sowerby, 1825)
- Megalobulimus mogianensis Simone & Leme, 1998
- Megalobulimus nodai Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus oblongus (Müller, 1774)
- Megalobulimus oliveirai (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus oosomus (Pilsbry, 1895)
- Megalobulimus ovatus (Müller, 1774)
- Megalobulimus parafragilior Leme & Indrusiak, 1990
- Megalobulimus paranaguensis (Pilsbry & Ihering, 1900)
- Megalobulimus pergranulatus (Pilsbry, 1901)
- Megalobulimus pintoi Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus popelairianus (Nyst, 1845)
- Megalobulimus proclivis (Martens, 1888)
- Megalobulimus pygmaeus (Bequaert, 1948)
- Megalobulimus riopretensis Simone & Leme, 1998
- Megalobulimus rolandianus Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus sanctaepauli (Ihering & Pilsbry, 1900)
- Megalobulimus santacruzii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Megalobulimus separabilis (Fulton, 1903)
- Megalobulimus tayacajus Borda & Ramírez, 2016
- Megalobulimus terrestris (Spix, 1827)
- Megalobulimus valenciennesii (Pfeiffer, 1842)
- Megalobulimus versatilis (Fulton, 1905)
- Megalobulimus vestitus (Pilsbry, 1926)
- † Megalobulimus wichmanni Miquel & Manceñido, 1999
- Megalobulimus wohlersi Lange-de-Morretes, 1952
- Megalobulimus yporanganus (Ihering & Pilsbry, 1901)
Human use
[edit]Shells of terrestrial snails, mainly of the genus Megalobulimus, are found in fluvial shellmound (called sambaqui in Brazil) on the Capelinha archaeological site from Paleo-Indian culture of early Holocene.[5]
The shell of Megalobulimus sp. (local name: "churito") is used in the traditional ethnomedicine of Northwest Argentina when babies are hyperactive and cannot sleep well, then it is advised to put a shell under a pillow.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Miller K. (1878). Malak. Bl. 25: 172.
- ^ a b "MolluscaBase - Megalobulimus K. Miller, 1878". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ Simone, L. R. L. (2012). "Taxonomical study on a sample of pulmonates from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, with description of a new genus and four new species (Mollusca: Orthalicidae and Megalobulimidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 52 (36): 431–439. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492012021600001.
- ^ Fontenelle, J. H.; Cavallari, D.C.; Simone, L.R.L. "A new species of Megalobulimus (Gastropoda, Strophocheilidae) from Brazilian shell mounds" (PDF). Strombus. 21 (1–2): 30–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015.
- ^ Eggers S., Parks M., Grupe G. & Reinhard K. J. (2011). "Paleoamerican Diet, Migration and Morphology in Brazil: Archaeological Complexity of the Earliest Americans". PLoS ONE 6(9): e23962. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023962.
- ^ Hilgert N. I. & Gil G. E. (2007). "Reproductive medicine in northwest Argentina: traditional and institutional systems". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 19. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-19.
Further reading
[edit]- Kawano T. & Moreira Leme J. L. (1994). "Chromosomes of three species of Megalobulimus (Gastropoda: Mesurethra: Megalobulimidae) from Brazil". Malacological review 27(1–2): 47–52. [1]
- Borda V., Ramírez R. & Romero P. (2010). "Glándula pediosa de moluscos terrestres y sus implicancias evolutivas, con énfasis en Megalobulimus / Pediose gland in land snails and its evolutionary implications, with emphasis on Megalobulimus." Revista Peruana de Biología 17(1): . 43–52. PDF.
- Rodrigo Salvador, José Fontenelle, Barbara Mizumo Tomotani: Taxonomic reassessment of Megalobulimus toriii (Gastropoda, Strophocheilidae); Journal of Conchology issue 3 vol. 43 p 313-320, 2019.
