Macrogastra
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| The shell of Macrogastra plicatula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Clausiliinae |
| Tribe: | Clausiliini |
| Genus: | Macrogastra Hartmann, 1841[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pupa ventricosa Draparnaud, 1801
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Macrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[2]
Like all clausiliids, the shells of the species in this genus are sinistral, or left-handed in their coiling.
Species[edit]
Species in this genus include:[3]
- Macrogastra asphaltina (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Macrogastra attenuata (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Macrogastra badia (Pfeiffer, 1828)
- Macrogastra borealis (Boettger, 1878)
- Macrogastra densestriata (Rossmässler, 1836)
- † Macrogastra loryi (Michaud, 1862)
- Macrogastra mellae (Stabile, 1864)
- † Macrogastra multistriata H. Nordsieck, 1981
- Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)
- Macrogastra portensis (Luso da Silva, 1872)
- † Macrogastra reischuetzi H. Nordsieck, 2014
- Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
- † Macrogastra schlickumi (H. Nordsieck, 1972)
- † Macrogastra sessenheimensis (H. Nordsieck, 1974)
- Macrogastra tumida (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) - type species
- † Macrogastra vindobonensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
- † Macrogastra voesendorfensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
References[edit]
- ^ (in German) Hartmann J. D. W. 1844. Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten. I. Band. pp. i-xx [= 1-20], 1-227, Tab. I-XII [= 1-12], I-XII [sic, = 13-24], 25-84. St. Gallen. (Scheitlin & Zollikofer).
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra W. Hartmann, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996088 on 2020-08-25
- ^ "Species in genus Macrogastra". AnimalBase, accessed 21 September 2009.
- Luso da Silva, A. 1872. Molluscos [sic] terrestres e fluviaes de Portugal. (Continuação). - Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes 3: 257-261. Lisboa.
- Nordsieck, H. (1977). Zur Anatomie und Systematik der Clausilien, XVIII. Neue Taxa rezenter Clausilien. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 108 (1/3): 73‑107. Frankfurt am Main
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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