''Chilostoma cingulatum'' is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing
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 ...
, a
terrestrial 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 ...
in the family
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 ...
, the true snails.
;Subspecies:
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum adamii''
(Pini, 1876)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum alzonai''
K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense''
(De Betta, 1852)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum anconae''
(Gentiluomo, 1868)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum appelii''
(Kobelt, 1876)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum asperulum''
(Ehrmann, 1910)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum baldense''
(Rossmässler, 1839)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum bizona''
(Rossmässler, 1842)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum boccavallense''
K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum carrarense''
(Strobel, 1852)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum cingulatum''
(S. Studer, 1820)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum''
(De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidescens''
(Del Prete, 1879)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidissimum''
(Paulucci, 1881)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidosum''
(Pollonera, 1890)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum gobanzi''
(Frauenfeld, 1867)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum hermesianum''
(Pini, 1874)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum infernale''
(P. Hesse, 1931)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum insubricum''
(De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum medoacense''
(Adami, 1886)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum montanum''
(Paulucci, 1881)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis''
(Costa, 1836)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum nicolisianum''
(Adami, 1886)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum peregrini''
Falkner, 1998
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum philippii''
(Kobelt, 1905)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum preslii''
(Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum sentinense''
(Piersanti, 1833)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum transiens''
(Adami, 1886)
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_anauniense_01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_baldense_01.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum baldense
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_colubrinum_01.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum
File:Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis 01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis
File:Chilostoma cingulatum preslii 01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum preslii
File:Chilostoma cingulatum preslii 02.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum preslii
(Flat form)
Habitat
The species is found only on limestone rocks.
Life cycle
The diameter of the egg of this species is 3.3 mm.
[Heller J.: ''Life History Strategies''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ]
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited page: 428.
These snails create and use
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 ...
during mating.
References
External links
* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1358
Chilostoma
Gastropods described in 1820
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