title: Sphaerospira
text: # Sphaerospira
  
  Sphaerospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.
  
  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  * Sphaerospira rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873): synonym of Steorra rawnesleyi (Cox, 1873) (superseded combination)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)
  