Macrogastra plicatula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050411 on 2021-06-01
Subspecies Macrogastra plicatula amiatensis H. Nordsieck, 2006 Macrogastra plicatula apennina (Gentiluomo, 1868) Macrogastra plicatula aprutica H. Nordsieck, 2006 Macrogastra plicatula licana (A. J. Wagner, 1912) Macrogastra plicatula nana (Parreyss in Schmidt 1857) Macrogastra plicatula plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801) Macrogastra plicatula plicosula (M. von Gallenstein, 1852) Macrogastra plicatula superflua (Charpentier, 1852)
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Description Like all the species in this family, Macrogastra plicatula has a clausilium. The weight of the adult live snail is 66.0±1.6 mg.Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J. & Fischer M. (2011). "Lichen Endozoochory by Snails". PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. .
Distribution Its native distribution is European:
Czech Republic Slovakia UkraineBalashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109. and others
Ecology It inhabits woods.
References
Rossmässler, E. A. (1835-1837). Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser- Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. (1) 1 (1): VI + 1–132. pl. 1-5 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 Pfeiffer, L. (1849). Nachträge zu L. Pfeiffer Monographia Heliceorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. Cassel (Theodor Fischer). 6 (4): 66-79 [30 November 1849]; 6 (6): 81-95