Sterkia

Sterkia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Genus: Sterkia
Pilsbry, 1898[1]

Sterkia is a genus of minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks which are classified in the family Pupillidae[2] or sometimes in the family Vertiginidae instead.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Sterkia include:

References

  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1898). Nautilus 11: 119.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 ". ITIS. accessed 1 August 2010.
  5. Sterkia eyriesii. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
  6. Sterkia hemphilli. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.