Macrogastra rolphii
Species of gastropod
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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.[1]
| Macrogastra rolphii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Macrogastra |
| Species: | M. rolphii |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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