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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
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| 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 | |
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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]
Its native distribution is European:
It inhabits woods.
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