Sterkia
Encyclopedia
Sterkia is a genus
of minute, air-breathing, land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
or in Vertiginidae
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute, air-breathing, land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....
or in Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.- Distribution :...
.
Species
Species within the genus Sterkia include:- Sterkia antillensis Pilsbry, 1920
- Sterkia calamitosa (Pilsbry, 1889) - Mexican birddrop
- Sterkia clementina (Sterki, 1890) - insular birddropInsular birddropThe insular birddrop or San Clemente Island blunt-top snail is a species of land snail, a gastropod in the Pupillidae family....
- Sterkia eyriesii (Pilsbry, 1899) - Caribbean Birddrop or (Drouet, 1859)
- Sterkia hemphilli (Sterki, 1890) - California Birddrop