Megalophaedusa martensi

Megalophaedusa martensi
Megalophaedusa martensi. The individual in the photo has a shell 45.5 mm long and weighs 3.2g with the soft parts intact.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Megalophaedusa
Species:	M. martensi
Binomial name
Megalophaedusa martensi (Martens, 1860)

Megalophaedusa martensi is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Description

Megalophaedusa martensi is the largest species in the family Clausiliidae, worldwide. The species is oviparous. ^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan. ^[2]

References

1. Mamos, Tomasz; Uit de Weerd, Dennis; Oheimb, Parm Viktor von; Sulikowska-Drozd, Anna (2021). "Evolution of reproductive strategies in the species-rich land snail subfamily Phaedusinae (Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 158: 107060. PMID   33383174, doi : 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107060.
2. (in Japanese) Megalophaedusa martensi Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine . Japanese Red Data Book. Accessed 24 November 2009