Muticaria Explained

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.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Clausilia include:

• Muticaria macrostoma (Cantraine, 1835) - synonyms: Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850, type species^[1]
• Muticaria neuteboomi Beckmann, 1990
• Muticaria syracusana (Philippi, 1836)^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=96 "Genus summary for Muticaria
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.