Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Pylopulmonata > Superfamily Pyramidelloidea > Family Pyramidellidae

Megastomia Monterosato, 1884

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Evelynella*	Laws, 1940	synonym
*Odostomia (Megastomia)*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Stomega*	Dall & Bartsch, 1904	synonym

Children

Megastomia alungata (F. Nordsieck, 1972)
Megastomia conoidea (Brocchi, 1814)
Megastomia conspicua (Alder, 1850)
Megastomia gilsoni (Dautzenberg, 1912)
Megastomia lorioli (Hornung & Mermod, 1924)
Megastomia palmaensis Peñas & Rolán, 1999
Megastomia winfriedi Peñas & Rolán, 1999

Literature

additional source	Schander, C.; Halanych, K. M.; Dahlgren, T.; Sundberg, P. (2003). Test of the monophyly of Odostomiinae and Turbonilliinae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pyramidellidae) based on 16S mtDNA sequences. Zoologica Scripta. 32(3): 243-254.
additional source	Robba, E. (2013). Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica. 144: 1-191. [April 2013].
additional source	Giannuzzi-Savelli, R.; Pusateri, F.; Micali, P.; Nofroni, I.; Bartolini, S. (2014). Atlante delle conchiglie marine del Mediterraneo Vol. 5 (Heterobranchia). Palermo, Edizioni Danaus. pp. 1-111, with 41 unnumbered plates (figs. 1-363), appendix pp. 1-91.
additional source	Høisæter, T. (2014). The Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) of Norway and adjacent waters. A taxonomic review. Fauna Norvegica. 34: 7-78.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megastomia Monterosato, 1884. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224395