Macrogastra rolphii
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.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Species: | M. rolphii |
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| Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826) | |
The shell of this species is sinistral, or left-handed, in its coiling.
Distribution
This species is known to occur in Western Europe in the following islands and countries:
- Belgium
- Great Britain
- The Netherlands
- Portugal
- and others
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