Muticaria macrostoma

Muticaria macrostoma
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: Alopiinae
Tribe: Medorini
Genus: Muticaria
Species: M. macrostoma
Binomial name
Muticaria macrostoma
(Cantraine, 1835)
Synonyms[2]
  • Clausilia macrosoma Cantraine, 1835
  • Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850

Muticaria macrostoma is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

This species is endemic to the Mediterranean island of Malta.

References

  1. Schembri P. J. 1996. Muticaria macrostoma. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. "Synonyms of Clausilia macrostoma". AnimalBase, accessed 29 July 2011.
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