''Microstilifer'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of small
salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...
or mudflat
snail
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...
s,
marine
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean.
Marine or marines may refer to:
Ocean
* Maritime (disambiguation)
* Marine art
* Marine biology
* Marine debris
* Marine habitats
* Marine life
* Marine pollution
Military
* ...
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in an unassigned family in the superfamily
Cerithioidea
The Cerithioidea is a superfamily of marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod containing more than 200 genera. The Cerithoidea are included unassigned in the subclass Caenogastropoda. The original name of this superfamily was Cerithiacea, ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Microstilifer Warén, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536409 on 2021-07-26]
Species
Species within the genus ''Microstilifer'' include:
* ''
Microstilifer auricula''
(Hedley, 1907)
* † ''
Microstilifer marsanensis
''Microstilifer'' is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks in an unassigned family in the superfamily Cerithioidea
The Cerithioidea is a superfamily of marine, brackish water and freshwater gastropod contai ...
''
Lozouet, 1998
References
* Warén, A. (1980). Descriptions of new taxa of Eulimidae (Mollusca, Prosobranchia), with notes on some previously described genera. Zoologica Scripta. 9: 283-306
External links
*
Cerithioidea
Gastropod genera
{{Improve categories, date=July 2021