Macrogastra plicatula

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

Macrogastra plicatula nana

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)

Macrogastra plicatula
Two shells of Macrogastra plicatula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Macrogastra
Species:	M. plicatula
Binomial name
Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)
Synonyms
Clausilia cruda Rossmässler, 1835 (junior synonym) Clausilia inuncta L. Pfeiffer, 1849 (junior synonym) Clausilia plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801) (superseded combination) Macrogastra (Macrogastra) plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801) Macrogastra (Pyrostoma) plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)

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.^[2]

The clausilium of Macrogastra plicatula

Distribution

Its native distribution is European:

• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Ukraine^[3]
• and others

Ecology

It inhabits woods.