Muticaria
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| authority = Lindholm, 1925Lindholm W. A. (1925). "A supplement to the revised systematic list of the genera of the Clausiliidæ". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(6): 261-266. page 262. [https://archive.today/20120711154602/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/6/261.full.pdf+html PDF]. {{subscription required}}
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Muticaria is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Muticaria includes Southeastern Sicilia in Italy and Malta.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=96 "Genus summary for Muticaria]. AnimalBase, last modified 19 October 2008, accessed 29 July 2011.
Species
Species within the genus Clausilia include:
- Muticaria macrostoma (Cantraine, 1835) - synonyms: Clausilia scalaris Pfeiffer, 1850, type species
- Muticaria neuteboomi Beckmann, 1990
- Muticaria syracusana (Philippi, 1836)Colomba M. S., Gregorini A., Liberto F., Reitano A., Giglio S. & Sparacio I. (2010). "Molecular analysis of Muticaria syracusana and M. neuteboomi from Southeastern Sicily, Italy (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae)". Biodiversity Journal 1: 7-14. [http://www.biodiversityjournal.com/pdf/1_7-14.pdf PDF].
References
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