Macrogastra ventricosa
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| Macrogastra ventricosa | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | M. ventricosa
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| 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:
- Norway
- Sweden
- Finland[2]
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russian Kaliningrad Oblast
- Germany
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Ukraine[3]
Description
The weight of the adult live snail is about 111.9 mg.[4]
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited July 7, 2007.
- ^ 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.
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