Macrogastra ventricosa

Macrogastra ventricosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Macrogastra
Species:	M. ventricosa
Binomial name
	Macrogastra ventricosa; (Draparnaud, 1801)
Synonyms
	Clausilia ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) (superseded generic combination); Macrogastra (Macrogastra) ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)· accepted, alternate representation; Pupa ventricosa Draparnaud, 1801 (original combination);

Macrogastra ventricosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. ^[1]

Distribution

This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:

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

^ 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 16th, 2017.
Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates

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