Macrogastra

Macrogastra
The shell of Macrogastra plicatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Genus: Macrogastra
Hartmann, 1841[1]

Macrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.

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:[2]

References

  1. (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).
  2. "Species in genus Macrogastra". AnimalBase, accessed 21 September 2009.