''Microstele'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of minute air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s or
micromollusk
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: ...
.
Species
* ''
Microstele alamellata''
Steklov, 1966
* † ''
Microstele buryaki''
Steklov, 1966
* † ''
Microstele caucasica''
Steklov, 1966
* † ''
Microstele gerardae''
Karnekamp, 1990
* † ''
Microstele ikvae''
Prisyazhnyuk, 1971 [Prisyazhnyuk, V.A. Molluski rodu Microstele O. Boettger (Pulmonata). Dopovidi Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, Seriya B. 7: 599-601 (1971).]
* ''
Microstele iredalei''
(Preston, 1912)
* ''
Microstele mariae''
(de Morgan, 1920)
* ''
Microstele muscerda''
(W.H. Benson, 1853)
* ''
Microstele noltei''
(O. Böttger, 1886)
* † ''
Microstele pingi''
Pilsbry, 1934 (taxon inquirendum)
* ''
Microstele wenzi''
(K.Fischer, 1920)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Microstele huberi''
Thach, 2018: synonym of ''
Apoecus huberi''
(Thach, 2018) (original combination)
References
* Boettger, 1886: Ber. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., 1886
* Marquet, R., Laenaerts, J., Karnekamp, C. & Smith, R. (2008) The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Early Rupelian, Oligocene). Palaeontons, Palaeo Publishing and Library, 12 : 100 p.
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
* Thach N.N. , 2018 New shells of South Asia. Seashells-Landsnails-Freshwater Shells. 3 New Genera, 132 New Species & Subspecies, p. 173 pp
External links
GBIF: Microstele
Pupillidae
{{Pupillidae-stub