Macrogastra ventricosa explained

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

Distribution

This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:

• 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

• 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

• • Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116

Notes and 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. http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/elainmuseo/selkarangattomat/tietoa/isosulkukotilo.htm
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. .