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Love Dart
A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place. Darts are quite large compared to the size of the animal: in the case of the semi-slug genus ''Parmarion'', the length of a dart can be up to one fifth that of the semi-slug's foot. The process of using love darts in snails is a form of sexual selection. Prior to copulation, each of the two snails (or slugs) attempts to "shoot" one (or more) darts into the other snail (or slug). There is no organ to receive the dart; this action is more analogous to stabbing, or to being shot with an arrow or flechette. The dart does not fly through the air to reach its target, but is "fired" as a contact shot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monachoides Vicinus Dart Lateral
''Monachoides'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Monachoides Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996512 on 2021-08-12 Some species of snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. Species The following species are recognised within the genus ''Monachoides'': * ''Monachoides bacescui'' (Grossu, 1979) * †''Monachoides barotiana'' Marinescu, 1975 * ''Monachoides fallax'' (Wagner, 1914) * ''Monachoides incarnatus'' (Müller, 1774) - the type species, sometimes the adjectival species name is treated as if the genus name had a feminine gender: ''Monarchoides incarnata'' * ''Monachoides kosovoensis'' (De Winter & Maassen, 1992) * ''Monachoides taraensis'' (De Winter & Maassen, 1992) * ''Monachoides v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
