Macrogastra

Macrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.^[2]

Macrogastra
The shell of Macrogastra plicatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Subfamily:	Clausiliinae
Tribe:	Clausiliini
Genus:	Macrogastra Hartmann, 1841[1]
Type species
Pupa ventricosa Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
Clausilia (Pirostoma) Moellendorff, 1873 (unjustified emendation) Macrogastra (Macrogastra) W. Hartmann, 1841· accepted, alternate representation Macrogastra (Pseudovestia) H. Nordsieck, 1977· accepted, alternate representation Macrogastra (Pyrostoma) Vest, 1867· accepted, alternate representation Pirostoma Moellendorff, 1873 Pirostoma (Pirostoma) Möllendorff, 1873

Like all clausiliids, the shells of the species in this genus are sinistral, or left-handed in their coiling.

Species

Species in this genus include:^[3]

• Macrogastra asphaltina (Rossmässler, 1836)
• Macrogastra attenuata (Rossmässler, 1835)
• Macrogastra badia (Pfeiffer, 1828)
• Macrogastra borealis (Boettger, 1878)
• Macrogastra densestriata (Rossmässler, 1836)
• † Macrogastra loryi (Michaud, 1862)
• Macrogastra mellae (Stabile, 1864)
• † Macrogastra multistriata H. Nordsieck, 1981
• Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Macrogastra portensis (Luso da Silva, 1872)
• † Macrogastra reischuetzi H. Nordsieck, 2014
• Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
• † Macrogastra schlickumi (H. Nordsieck, 1972)
• † Macrogastra sessenheimensis (H. Nordsieck, 1974)
• Macrogastra tumida (Rossmässler, 1836)
• Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) - type species
• † Macrogastra vindobonensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
• † Macrogastra voesendorfensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)