Macrogastra
Genus of gastropods
Macrogastra
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The shell of Macrogastra plicatula
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Subclass:
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Heterobranchia
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Order:
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Stylommatophora
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Family:
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Clausiliidae
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Subfamily:
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Clausiliinae
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Tribe:
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Clausiliini
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Genus:
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Macrogastra Hartmann, 1841[1]
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Type species
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Pupa ventricosa
Draparnaud, 1801
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Synonyms
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- Clausilia (Pirostoma) Moellendorff, 1873 (unjustified emendation)
- Macrogastra (Macrogastra) W. Hartmann, 1841· accepted, alternate representation
- Macrogastra (Pseudovestia) H. Nordsieck, 1977· accepted, alternate representation
- Macrogastra (Pyrostoma) Vest, 1867· accepted, alternate representation
- Pirostoma Moellendorff, 1873
- Pirostoma (Pirostoma) Möllendorff, 1873
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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.[2]
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:[3]
- Macrogastra asphaltina (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Macrogastra attenuata (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Macrogastra badia (Pfeiffer, 1828)
- Macrogastra borealis (Boettger, 1878)
- Macrogastra densestriata (Rossmässler, 1836)
- † Macrogastra loryi (Michaud, 1862)
- Macrogastra mellae (Stabile, 1864)
- † Macrogastra multistriata H. Nordsieck, 1981
- Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)
- Macrogastra portensis (Luso da Silva, 1872)
- † Macrogastra reischuetzi H. Nordsieck, 2014
- Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
- † Macrogastra schlickumi (H. Nordsieck, 1972)
- † Macrogastra sessenheimensis (H. Nordsieck, 1974)
- Macrogastra tumida (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) - type species
- † Macrogastra vindobonensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
- † Macrogastra voesendorfensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
References
- Luso da Silva, A. 1872. Molluscos [sic] terrestres e fluviaes de Portugal. (Continuação). - Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes 3: 257-261. Lisboa.
- Nordsieck, H. (1977). Zur Anatomie und Systematik der Clausilien, XVIII. Neue Taxa rezenter Clausilien. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 108 (1/3): 73‑107. Frankfurt am Main
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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