''Fruticicola'' is a
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 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 ...
s, which are
terrestrial molluscs
Terrestrial molluscs or land molluscs (mollusks) are an ecology, ecological group that includes all molluscs that live on land in contrast to Freshwater mollusc, freshwater and Sea snail, marine molluscs. They probably first occurred in the Carbo ...
in the tribe Bradybaenini of the subfamily Bradybaeninae in the family
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fruticicola Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934358 on 2020-11-26]
Species of snail in this genus 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 ...
prior to mating.
Species
Species within this genus include:
* ''
Fruticicola alaica''
(Kuznetsov, 1998)
* ''
Fruticicola almaatini''
(Skvortzov, 1940)
* ''
Fruticicola bilaticincta''
(E. v. Martens, 1882)
* ''
Fruticicola boevi''
(Uvalieva, 1967)
* ''
Fruticicola cavimargo''
(E. v. Martens, 1879)
* ''
Fruticicola dichrozona''
(E. v. Martens, 1885)
* ''
Fruticicola fedtschenkoi''
(E. v. Martens, 1874)
* ''
Fruticicola fruticum
''Fruticicola fruticum'' is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.
Shell description
The shell of this species is globular with a deep umbilicus. The shell color ...
''
(Müller, 1774)
* ''
Fruticicola helvola''
(Frivaldszky in L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
* ''
Fruticicola intermedia''
(Rymzhanov, 1983)
* ''
Fruticicola koreana''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
* ''
Fruticicola lantzi''
Lindholm, 1927
* ''
Fruticicola perlucens''
(Rosen, 1901)
* ''
Fruticicola phaeozona''
(E. v. Martens, 1874)
* ''
Fruticicola plectotropis''
(E. v. Martens, 1864)
* ''
Fruticicola schrenkii''
(Middendorff, 1851)
* ''
Fruticicola scythica''
(Westerlund, 1898)
* ''
Fruticicola sinistrorsa''
(Tzvetkov, 1938)
* ''
Fruticicola skwortzowi''
Tzvetkov, 1940
* ''
Fruticicola squamulosa''
(Izzatullaev & Schileyko, 1980)
* ''
Fruticicola stoliczkana''
(Nevill, 1878)
* ''
Fruticicola tomyris''
Lindholm, 1927
* ''
Fruticicola transbaicalica''
(Schileyko, 1978)
* ''
Fruticicola tzwetkovi''
(Uvalieva & Soboleva, 1973)
* ''
Fruticicola zhecseni''
(Rymzhanov, 1979)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Held, F. (1837-1838). Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. Isis (Oken), 30 (4): 303-309 (1837); 30 (12): 901-919 (1838). LeipzigHartmann, J.D.W. (1840-1844). Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten, i-xx, 1-36, pl. 1-2 [30-06-1840]; 37-116, pl. 13-36 [1841]; 117-156, pl. 37-60 [1842]; 157-204, pl. 61-72 [1843]; 205-227, pl. 73-84 [1844]. St. Gallen.
Camaenidae
Gastropod genera
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