Macrogastra plicatula

Macrogastra plicatula
A shell of Macrogastra plicatula
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Genus: Macrogastra
Species: M. plicatula
Binomial name
Macrogastra plicatula
(Draparnaud, 1801)

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

Description

Like all the species in this family, Macrogastra plicatula has a clausilium.

The clausilium of Macrogastra plicatula

Distribution

Its native distribution is European:

Description

The weight of the adult live snail is 66.0±1.6 mg.[3]

Ecology

It inhabits woods.

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited October 21 2007.
  2. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  3. 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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