''Muticaria'' 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 small, 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 ...

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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 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, all of which have a

clausilium The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The clausilium is one part of the clausilial appar ...

Distribution

Distribution of the genus ''Muticaria'' includes Southeastern

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and

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."Genus summary for ''Muticaria''
AnimalBase, last modified 19 October 2008, accessed 29 July 2011.

Species

Species within the genus ''Clausilia'' include: * '' Muticaria macrostoma'' (Cantraine, 1835) - synonyms: ''Clausilia scalaris'' Pfeiffer, 1850, type species * '' Muticaria neuteboomi'' Beckmann, 1990 * '' Muticaria syracusana'' (Philippi, 1836)Colomba M. S., Gregorini A., Liberto F., Reitano A., Giglio S. & Sparacio I. (2010). "Molecular analysis of ''Muticaria syracusana'' and ''M. neuteboomi'' from Southeastern Sicily, Italy (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae)". ''

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References

Clausiliidae Taxa named by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm Gastropod genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Clausiliidae-stub