Macrogastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Clausiliinae of the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.

Like all clausiliids, the shells of the species in this genus are sinistral, or left-handed in their coiling.

Species

Species in this genus include:

  • Macrogastra asphaltina (Rossmässler, 1836)
  • Macrogastra attenuata (Rossmässler, 1835)
  • Macrogastra badia (Pfeiffer, 1828)
  • Macrogastra borealis (Boettger, 1878)
  • Macrogastra densestriata (Rossmässler, 1836)
  • † Macrogastra loryi (Michaud, 1862)
  • Macrogastra mellae (Stabile, 1864)
  • † Macrogastra multistriata H. Nordsieck, 1981
  • Macrogastra plicatula (Draparnaud, 1801)
  • Macrogastra portensis (Luso da Silva, 1872)
  • † Macrogastra reischuetzi H. Nordsieck, 2014
  • Macrogastra rolphii (Turton, 1826)
  • † Macrogastra schlickumi (H. Nordsieck, 1972)
  • † Macrogastra sessenheimensis (H. Nordsieck, 1974)
  • Macrogastra tumida (Rossmässler, 1836)
  • Macrogastra ventricosa (Draparnaud, 1801) - type species
  • † Macrogastra vindobonensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
  • † Macrogastra voesendorfensis (Papp & Thenius, 1954)
  • Luso da Silva, A. 1872. Molluscos [sic] terrestres e fluviaes de Portugal. (Continuação). - Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes 3: 257-261. Lisboa.
  • Nordsieck, H. (1977). Zur Anatomie und Systematik der Clausilien, XVIII. Neue Taxa rezenter Clausilien. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 108 (1/3): 73‑107. Frankfurt am Main
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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