Muticaria
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Muticaria is a genus
of small, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae
, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small, air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, 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 mollusks 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, all of which have a clausilium
Clausilium
The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails...
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Distribution
Distribution of the genus Muticaria includes Southeastern Sicilia in Italy and Malta.Species
Species within the genus Clausilia include:- Muticaria macrostomaMuticaria macrostomaMuticaria 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.This species is endemic to the Mediterranean island of Malta....
(Cantraine, 1835) - synonyms: Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850, type species - Muticaria neuteboomi Beckmann, 1990
- Muticaria syracusana (Philippi, 1836)