Microstrophia

Microstrophia
Shell of Microstrophia goudoti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Microstrophia Möllendorff, 1887 [1]
Type species
Pupa clavulataLamarck, 1822
Synonyms
Ennea (Microstrophia)Möllendorff, 1887 Gibbulina (Nevillia)Martens, 1880 (invalid: junior homonym of Nevillia H. Adams, 1868) Gonospira (Microstrophia)Möllendorff, 1887 NevilliaE. von Martens, 1880 (junior homonym of Nevillia H. Adams, 1868)

Microstrophia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae. ^[2]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Microstrophia include:

• Mauritius ^[3]
• Réunion ^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Microstrophia include:

• Microstrophia abnormala Griffiths & Florens, 2004 †
• Microstrophia baideri Griffiths & Florens, 2004 †
• Microstrophia clavulata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Microstrophia goudoti (Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994)
• Microstrophia jacobsi (Griffiths, 2000)
• Microstrophia modesta Adams, 1867 ^[4]
• Microstrophia nana Peile, 1936 ^[5]
• Microstrophia toudogi (Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994)

Species brought into synonymy

• Microstrophia cryptophora(Morelet, 1881): synonym of Juventigulella cryptophora (Morelet, 1881) (superseded combination)

References

1. Möllendorff O. F. von (1887). Jahrb. dtsch. malakozool. Ges.14: 22.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Microstrophia Möllendorff, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883915 on 2021-07-26
3. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
4. Griffiths O. (1996). Microstrophia modesta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
5. Griffiths O. (1996). Microstrophia nana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Martens, E. von. (1880). Mollusken. Pp. 179-353, pl. 19-22 In K. Möbius, F. Richters & E. von Martens, Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin: Gutmann