Genus of gastropods
Microcystis
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Shell of Microcystis castanea (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Subclass:
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Heterobranchia
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Order:
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Stylommatophora
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Infraorder:
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Limacoidei
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Superfamily:
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Trochomorphoidea
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Family:
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Euconulidae
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Genus:
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Microcystis Beck, 1838
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Type species
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Nanina (Microcystis) ornatella
Beck, 1838
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Synonyms[1]
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- Ariophanta (Microcystis) Beck, 1838
- Helicopsis Beck, 1837 (non Helicopsis Fitzinger, 1833)
- Helix (Microcystis) Beck, 1838
- Hyalina (Microcystis) Beck, 1838
- Macrochlamys (Microcystis) Beck, 1838 (unaccepted rank)
- Microcystina (Microcystis) Beck, 1838 (unaccepted rank)
- Microcystis (Cnesticystis) H. B. Baker, 1938· accepted, alternate representation
- Microcystis (Facorhina) H. B. Baker, 1938· accepted, alternate representation
- Microcystis (Leurocystis) H. B. Baker, 1938· accepted, alternate representation
- Microcystis (Microcystis) Beck, 1838· accepted, alternate representation
- Nanina (Microcystis) H. Beck, 1838 (original combination)
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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]