Macrogastra

Macrogastra
The shell of Macrogastra plicatula
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Clausiliinae
Tribe: Clausiliini
Genus: Macrogastra
Hartmann, 1841
Type species
Pupa ventricosa
Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
  • Clausilia (Pirostoma) Moellendorff, 1873 (unjustified emendation)
  • Macrogastra (Macrogastra) W. Hartmann, 1841· accepted, alternate representation
  • Macrogastra (Pseudovestia) H. Nordsieck, 1977· accepted, alternate representation
  • Macrogastra (Pyrostoma) Vest, 1867· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pirostoma Moellendorff, 1873
  • Pirostoma (Pirostoma) Möllendorff, 1873

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.