Macrogastra ventricosa

Macrogastra ventricosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.^[1]

Subspecies

• Macrogastra ventricosa brancsiki H. Nordsieck, 2006
• Macrogastra ventricosa major (Rossmässler, 1836)
• Macrogastra ventricosa ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)

Macrogastra ventricosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Macrogastra
Species:	M. ventricosa
Binomial name
Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)
Synonyms
Clausilia ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) (superseded generic combination) Macrogastra (Macrogastra) ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801)· accepted, alternate representation Pupa ventricosa Draparnaud, 1801 (original combination)

Distribution

This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:

Distribution of Macrogastra ventricosa

• Norway
• Sweden
• Finland^[2]
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Russian Kaliningrad Oblast
• Germany
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Hungary
• Slovenia
• Ukraine^[3]

Description

The weight of the adult live snail is about 111.9 mg.^[4]