Microcystis (gastropod)
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| Microcystis | |
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| Shell of Microcystis castanea (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
| Superfamily: | Trochomorphoidea |
| Family: | Euconulidae |
| Genus: | Microcystis Beck, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Nanina (Microcystis) ornatella Beck, 1838 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Microcystis is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Microcystinae in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails.[1]
