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

Macrogastra borealis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: 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 edit

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

It occurs in the following countries:

References edit

  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.