''Macrogastra'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family

Clausiliidae Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...

, the door snails.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 Like all clausiliids, the shells of the species in this genus are sinistral, or left-handed in their coiling.

Species

Species in this genus include:"Species in genus ''Macrogastra''"
AnimalBase, accessed 21 September 2009. * '' 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 ''Macrogastra plicatula'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed ...

'' (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

* Luso da Silva, A. 1872. Molluscos icterrestres 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

External links

Hartmann, J.D.W. (1840-1844). Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten, i-xx, 1-36, pl. 1-2 [30-06-1840]; 37-116, pl. 13-36 [1841]; 117-156, pl. 37-60 [1842]; 157-204, pl. 61-72 [1843]; 205-227, pl. 73-84 [1844]. St. Gallen.
Clausiliidae Gastropod genera {{Clausiliidae-stub