Microstrophia

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

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