Biology:Sterkia
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra |
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| Genus: | Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898[1]
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Sterkia is a genus of minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks which were formerly classified in the family Pupillidae[2] now in the family Vertiginidae instead.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Sterkia include:
- Sterkia antillensis Pilsbry, 1920[3]
- Sterkia bakeri Pilsbry, 1921
- Sterkia eyriesii (Drouët, 1859) - Caribbean Birddrop[4]
- Synonyms
- Sterkia calamitosa (Pilsbry, 1889) - Mexican birddrop:[5] synonym of Vertigo calamitosa (Pilsbry, 1889)
- Sterkia clementina (Sterki, 1890) - insular birddrop:[2][5] synonym of Vertigo clementina (Sterki, 1890) (superseded combination)
- Sterkia hemphilli (Sterki, 1890) - California Birddrop:[5][6] synonym of Vertigo hemphilli (Sterki, 1890) (superseded combination)
References
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1898). Nautilus 11: 119.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ↑ "Sterkia eyriesii". Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel. http://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/433347/tab/taxo. accessed 12 November 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 ". ITIS. accessed 1 August 2010.
- ↑ Sterkia hemphilli. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
- Nekola, J.C.; Chiba, S.; Coles, B.F.; Drost, C.A.; Proschwitz, T. von; Horsák, M. (2018). A phylogenetic overview of the genus Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae). Malacologia. 62(1): 21–161.
Wikidata ☰ Q3075835 entry
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