Macrogastra borealis

Macrogastra borealis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.

Macrogastra borealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Clausilioidea
Family:
Clausiliidae
Subfamily:
Clausiliinae
Genus:
Macrogastra
Subgenus:
Macrogastra
Species:
M. borealis
Binomial name
Macrogastra borealis
(Boettger, 1878)[1]
Synonyms

Clausilia latestriata var. borealis Boettger, 1878
Macrogastra borealis (Boettger, 1878)
Clausilia latestriata A. Schmidt, 1857
Macrogastra latestriata (A. Schmidt, 1857)

Distribution

The native distribution of this species is Baltic and Carpathian.[2]

It occurs in the following countries:

References
  1. (in German) Boettger O. 1878. Neue und neu bestätigte Fundorte von Clausilien im westlichen Deutschland, vornehmlich in Nassau und den beiden Hessen. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 10 (8): 131-137. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. - VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.


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