Bradybaena
Encyclopedia
Bradybaena is a genus
of small, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae
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Species of snail within this genus create and use love darts prior to mating.
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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 Bradybaenidae
Bradybaenidae
Bradybaenidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea....
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Species of snail within this genus create and use love darts prior to mating.
Distribution
This genus occurs in eastern and southern Asia. The European species that was previously in this genus is now placed in the genus FruticicolaFruticicola
Fruticicola is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.Species of snail in this genus create and use love darts prior to mating.-Species:...
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