Xerosecta
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Xerosecta is a genus
of small, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae
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Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
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 Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.-Anatomy:...
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Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Species within the genus Xerosecta
- Xerosecta adolfiXerosecta adolfiXerosecta adolfi is a species of gastropod in the Hygromiidae family. It is endemic to Spain.-Source:* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Xerosecta arigonis
- Xerosecta cespitumXerosecta cespitumXerosecta cespitum is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.This snail is native to south Spain, Mallorca, southern France, northwestern Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, and Morocco to Tunisia.This species of snail makes and...
- Xerosecta contermina
- Xerosecta conspurcata
- Xerosecta dohrni
- Xerosecta explanata
- Xerosecta giustiiXerosecta giustiiXerosecta giustii is a species of gastropod in the Hygromiidae family. It is endemic to Italy.-Source:* Manganelli, G. 2000. . Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
- Xerosecta hillyeriana
- Xerosecta introducta
- Xerosecta promissa
- Xerosecta reboundiana
- Xerosecta terverii
External links
- Species list at: http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=2620
- Taxonomy and a good shell image at: http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Xerosecta_Genus.asp
- Excellent info at: http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=681