| Macrogastra rolphii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Macrogastra |
| Species: | M. rolphii
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
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Macrogastra rolphii, known as Rolph's door snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[1]
The shell of this species is sinistral, or left-handed, in its coiling.
- Subspecies
- Macrogastra rolphii digonostoma (Bourguignat, 1877)
- Macrogastra rolphii portensis (Luso da Silva, 1872)
- Macrogastra rolphii rolphii (W. Turton, 1826)
Distribution
[edit]This species is known to occur in Western Europe in the following islands and countries:
- Belgium
- Great Britain
- The Netherlands
- Portugal
- and others
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra rolphii (W. Turton, 1826). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050404 on 2021-06-01
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
[edit]- Taylor, J. W. (1883). Descriptions of some new varieties of British land and freshwater shells. Journal of Conchology. 4: 28-37
- AnimalBase info at: [1]
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