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Macrogastra
Sign in to saveMacrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyClausiliidae
Observations351
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 43
- Family
- Clausiliidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MZLU, UMZC, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Austria, Italy, France
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Clausiliidae
- Image
- Macrogastra ventricosa (MNHN-IM-2010-13084).jpeg
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- taxon name
- Macrogastra
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Macrogastra
- taxon common name
- ribbekøllesnegler
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Macrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Clausiliinae of 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macrogastra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.