''Arianta'' is a medium-sized

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of European

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the

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Helicidae Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropoge ...

. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous

love darts A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcium carbonate, calcareous or chitinous Dart (missile), dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stor ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Arianta'' include: * ''

Arianta aethyops ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Bielz, 1851) * ''

Arianta arbustorum ''Arianta arbustorum'', sometimes known as the copse snail, is a medium-sized species of pulmonate land snail in the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register o ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

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) * ''

Arianta chamaeleon ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' ( Pfeiffer, 1868) * ''

Arianta frangepanii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Kormos, 1906) * ''

Arianta hessei ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (M. Kimakowicz, 1883) * ''

Arianta picea ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Rossmässler, 1837) * ''

Arianta schmidtii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Rossmässler, 1836) * ''

Arianta stenzii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Speci ...

'' (Rossmässler, 1835) * ''

Arianta xatartii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Farines, 1834)

References

* Groenenberg D.S.J., Subai P. & Gittenberger E. (2016). Systematics of Ariantinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae), a new approach to an old problem. Contributions to Zoology. 85(1): 37-65

External links

Species list

AnimalBase

Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Zweite Ausgabe. I-XVIII, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman

Turton, W. (1831). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, arranged according to the more modern system of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species, viii + 152 + 16 pp.): Index of English names), 9 unnumbered plates. London (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green).
Helicidae Gastropod genera Taxa named by William Turton {{Helicidae-stub