''Pseudotachea'' is a
genus
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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,
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 subfamily Helicinae of 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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pseudotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996426 on 2021-02-10]
Like many Helicidae, this genus of snails create and use
love dart
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 ...
s.
Species
* ''
Pseudotachea liturata''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1851)
* ''
Pseudotachea splendida''
(Draparnaud, 1801)
;Species inquirendum:
* † ''Pseudotachea torresi''
(Roman, 1907)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Pseudotachea cotteri''
(Roman, 1907) †: synonym of ''
Megalotachea cotteri''
(Roman, 1907) †
* ''Pseudotachea ogerieni''
(Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †: synonym of ''
Frechenia ogerieni''
(Delafond & Depéret, 1893) †
* ''Pseudotachea tersannensis''
(Locard, 1878) †: synonym of ''
Megalotachea delphinensis''
(Fontannes, 1876) † (junior synonym)
References
* Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153–380, pl. 15–17.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Boettger, C.R. (1909). Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der europäischen Heliciden. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 41(1): 1-19
Helicidae
Gastropod genera
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