Macrogastra ventricosa

Macrogastra ventricosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Macrogastra
Species:	M. ventricosa
Binomial name
Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)
Synonyms
Clausilia ventricosa(Draparnaud, 1801) (superseded generic combination) Macrogastra (Macrogastra) ventricosa(Draparnaud, 1801)· accepted, alternate representation Pupa ventricosaDraparnaud, 1801 (original combination)

Macrogastra ventricosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Macrogastra ventricosa brancsikiH. Nordsieck, 2006
• Macrogastra ventricosa major(Rossmässler, 1836)
• Macrogastra ventricosa ventricosa(Draparnaud, 1801)

Distribution

This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:

Distribution of Macrogastra ventricosa

• Norway
• Sweden
• Finland ^[2]
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Russian Kaliningrad Oblast
• Germany
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Hungary
• Slovenia
• Ukraine ^[3]

Description

The weight of the adult live snail is about 111.9 mg. ^[4]

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050403 on 2021-06-01
2. (in Finnish) http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/elainmuseo/selkarangattomat/tietoa/isosulkukotilo.htm Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
3. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
4. 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 .

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates

External links

• Media related to Macrogastra ventricosa at Wikimedia Commons
• Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116