Sterkia is a genus of minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks which were formerly classified in the family Pupillidae[2] now in the family Vertiginidae instead.[3]

Sterkia
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
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Sterkia

Species

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Species within the genus Sterkia include:

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References

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  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1898). Nautilus 11: 119.
  2. ^ a b Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Mollusca" Archived 26 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Sterkia eyriesii". Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel. accessed 12 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "Sterkia Pilsbry, 1898 ". ITIS. accessed 1 August 2010.
  6. ^ Sterkia hemphilli. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
  • Nekola, J.C.; Chiba, S.; Coles, B.F.; Drost, C.A.; Proschwitz, T. von; Horsák, M. (2018). A phylogenetic overview of the genus Vertigo O. F. Müller, 1773 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae: Vertigininae). Malacologia. 62(1): 21–161.