Sterkia
Sign in to saveSterkia is a genus of minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks which were formerly classified in the family Pupillidae now in the family Vertiginidae instead.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyVertiginidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- Family
- Vertiginidae
- Collections
- CAS, UF, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Belize, Trinidad And Tobago, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti
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- Parent taxon
- Pupillidae
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- Sterkia
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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 now in the family Vertiginidae instead.
==Species== Species within the genus Sterkia include: Sterkia antillensis Pilsbry, 1920 Sterkia bakeri Pilsbry, 1921 Sterkia eyriesii (Drouët, 1859) – Caribbean Birddrop Synonyms: Sterkia calamitosa (Pilsbry, 1889) – Mexican birddrop: synonym of Vertigo calamitosa (Pilsbry, 1889) Sterkia clementina (Sterki, 1890) – insular birddrop: synonym of Vertigo clementina (Sterki, 1890) (superseded combination) Sterkia hemphilli (Sterki, 1890) – California Birddrop: synonym of Vertigo hemphilli (Sterki, 1890) (superseded combination)
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