''Microstele'' 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 nom ...

of minute air-breathing land snails,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. 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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate 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 e ...

s or micromollusks 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 16th, 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