Macrogastra ventricosa

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Macrogastra ventricosa
NE[1]
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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M. ventricosa
Binomial name
Macrogastra ventricosa
(Draparnaud, 1801)

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Macrogastra ventricosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.

Distribution

This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:

Description

The weight of the adult live snail is about 111.9 mg.[4]

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited July 7 2007.
  2. (Finnish) http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/elainmuseo/selkarangattomat/tietoa/isosulkukotilo.htm
  3. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  4. Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J. & Fischer M. (2011). "Lichen Endozoochory by Snails". PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018770.

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