Microstrophia

Microstrophia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.^[2]

Microstrophia
Shell of Microstrophia goudoti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific 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)

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Microstrophia include:

• Mauritius^[3]
• Réunion^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Microstrophia include:

• Microstrophia abnormala Griffiths & Florens, 2004 †
• Microstrophia baideri Griffiths & Florens, 2004 †
• Microstrophia clavulata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Microstrophia goudoti (Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994)
• Microstrophia jacobsi (Griffiths, 2000)
• Microstrophia modesta Adams, 1867^[4]
• Microstrophia nana Peile, 1936^[5]
• Microstrophia toudogi (Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994)

Species brought into synonymy

• Microstrophia cryptophora (Morelet, 1881): synonym of Juventigulella cryptophora (Morelet, 1881) (superseded combination)