Macrogastra ventricosa
Encyclopedia
Macrogastra ventricosa is a species of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae
, the door snails.
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae, common name door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....
, the door snails.
Distribution
This snail occurs in Northern and Central Europe:- Norway
- Sweden
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russian Kaliningrad OblastKaliningrad OblastKaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated on the Baltic coast. It has a population of The oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia. Since its creation it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then the...
- Germany
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Hungary
- Slovenia