Muticaria

Muticaria
Muticaria macrostoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Muticaria Lindholm, 1925 [1]
Diversity [2]
3 species

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

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Muticaria includes Southeastern Sicilia in Italy and Malta. ^{[2] [3]}

Species

Species within the genus Clausilia include:

• Muticaria macrostoma (Cantraine, 1835) ^[2] - synonyms: Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850, type species ^[3]
• Muticaria neuteboomi Beckmann, 1990 ^[2]
• Muticaria syracusana (Philippi, 1836) ^[2]

References

1. Lindholm W. A. (1925). "A supplement to the revised systematic list of the genera of the Clausiliidæ". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(6): 261-266. page 262. PDF. (subscription required)
2. Colomba M. S., Gregorini A., Liberto F., Reitano A., Giglio S. & Sparacio I. (2010). "Molecular analysis of Muticaria syracusana and M. neuteboomi from Southeastern Sicily, Italy (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae)". Biodiversity Journal 1: 7-14. PDF.
3. "Genus summary for Muticaria. AnimalBase, last modified 19 October 2008, accessed 29 July 2011.