Macrogastra plicatula
| Macrogastra plicatula | |
|---|---|
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| A shell of Macrogastra plicatula | |
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Clausilioidea |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Clausiliinae |
| Genus: | Macrogastra |
| Species: | M. plicatula |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801) | |
Macrogastra plicatula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
Description
Like all the species in this family, Macrogastra plicatula has a clausilium.
The clausilium of Macrogastra plicatula
Distribution
Its native distribution is European:
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Ukraine[2]
- and others
Description
The weight of the adult live snail is 66.0±1.6 mg.[3]
Ecology
It inhabits woods.
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited October 21 2007.
- ↑ 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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