Muticaria macrostoma

Muticaria macrostoma is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Muticaria macrostoma
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:
Alopiinae
Tribe:
Medorini
Genus:
Muticaria
Species:
M. macrostoma
Binomial name
Muticaria macrostoma
(Cantraine, 1835)
Synonyms[2]
  • Clausilia macrosoma Cantraine, 1835
  • Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850

This species is endemic to the Mediterranean island of Malta.

References
  1. De Mattia, W. 2017. Muticaria macrostoma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T14029A86145536. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T14029A86145536.en. Downloaded on 11 January 2019.
  2. "Synonyms of Clausilia macrostoma". AnimalBase, accessed 29 July 2011.


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