| Macrogastra ventricosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Macrogastra |
| Species: | 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 mollusc in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
- Subspecies
- Macrogastra ventricosa brancsiki H. Nordsieck, 2006
- Macrogastra ventricosa major (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Macrogastra ventricosa ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)
Distribution
This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:
- Norway
- Sweden
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russian Kaliningrad Oblast
- Germany
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Ukraine
Description
The weight of the adult live snail is about 111.9 mg.
References
- MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050403 on 2021-06-01
- (in Finnish) http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/elainmuseo/selkarangattomat/tietoa/isosulkukotilo.htm
- Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- 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.
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
- Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates
External links
Media related to Macrogastra ventricosa at Wikimedia Commons- Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116
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