Thersites (gastropod)

Thersites
Thersites fraseri (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Hadrinae
Genus: Thersites
Pfeiffer, 1855[1]

Thersites is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.

Species

Species within the genus Thersites include:[2]

  • Thersites darlingtoni Clench & Archer, 1938, synonym of Thersites richmondiana Reeve, 1852
  • Thersites mitchellae Cox, 1864, synonym of Thersites novaehollandiae Gray, 1834
  • Thersites novaehollandiae Gray, 1834
  • Thersites richmondiana Reeve, 1852

References

  1. ^ Pfeiffer L K. G. (1855). Mal. Bl. 2: 141.
  2. ^ Zhang, Guoyi; Cassis, Gerasimos; Köhler, Frank (2025-12-01). "When discrete characters are wanting: continuous character integration under the phylospecies concept informs the revision of the Australian land snail Thersites (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 205 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf175. ISSN 0024-4082.