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.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
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 This species is known to occur in Western Europe in the following islands and countries: Belgium Great Britain The Netherlands Portugal and others
References
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Taylor, J. W. (1883). Descriptions of some new varieties of British land and freshwater shells. Journal of Conchology. 4: 28-37 AnimalBase info at: