Macrogastra rolphii

Macrogastra rolphii
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
Genus:	Macrogastra
Species:	M. rolphii
Binomial name
Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
Synonyms
Clausilia rolphii W. Turton, 1826 (original combination) Clausilia rolphii var. pellucida J. W. Taylor, 1883 (invalid; not L. Pfeiffer, 1848) Macrogastra (Pseudovestia) rolphii (W. Turton, 1826)· accepted, alternate representation

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]

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

References[]

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017.

External links[]

• Taylor, J. W. (1883). Descriptions of some new varieties of British land and freshwater shells. Journal of Conchology. 4: 28-37
• AnimalBase info at: [1]

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