''Xerosecta'' is a
genus
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of small, 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
Helicellinae
Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
Anatomy
The family is characterized by the presence of a free right ommatophoral retr ...
of the family
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea
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, the hairy snails and their allies.
Snails 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 ...
as part of their mating behavior.
Species
Species within the genus ''Xerosecta'' include:
* ''
Xerosecta adolfi''
L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
* ''
Xerosecta arigonis''
(A. Schmidt, 1853)
* ''
Xerosecta brachyflagellata''
De Mattia & Mascia, 2014
* ''
Xerosecta cespitum''
(Draparnaud, 1801)
* ''
Xerosecta contermina''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
* ''
Xerosecta dohrni''
(Paulucci, 1882)
* ''
Xerosecta explanata''
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
* ''
Xerosecta giustii''
Manganelli & Favilli, 1996
* ''
Xerosecta introducta''
(A. Villa & G. B. Villa, 1841)
* ''
Xerosecta leptocolpata''
(P.M. Pallary, 1923)
* ''
Xerosecta pharussica''
(P.M. Pallary, 1926)University of Michigan: Invert E Base
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* '' Xerosecta promissa'' (Westerlund, 1892)
* '' Xerosecta reboundiana'' (Bourguignat, 1863)
* '' Xerosecta sandaliotica'' De Mattia & Mascia, 2014
* '' Xerosecta terverii'' (Michaud, 1831)
* '' Xerosecta vaucheri'' (P.M. Pallary, 1901)
;Synonyms:
* ''Xerosecta gvozdevi'' Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995: synonym of '' Kalitinaia gvozdevi'' (Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995) (superseded combination
In taxonomy, a superseded combination is a notice of change to the binomial nomenclature of the accepted name of a species. This happens when a species is moved to a new genus after the initial species description. The original name is called a ...
, basionym)
* ''Xerosecta hillyeriana'' (M. Paulucci, 1882): synonym of '' Xerosecta dohrni'' (Paulucci, 1882)
* ''Xerosecta orientalis'' Uvalieva & Sacharnova, 1995: synonym of '' Kalitinaia orientalis'' (Uvalieva & Sacharnova, 1995) (original combination)
File:Xerosecta arnaizi 01.JPG, Xerosecta arnaizi
File:Xerosecta bodsonae 01.jpg, Xerosecta bodsonae
File:Xerosecta brunoti 01.JPG, Xerosecta brunoti
File:Xerosecta castriesi 01.JPG, Xerosecta castriesi
File:Xerosecta cespitum 01.jpg, Xerosecta cespitum
File:Xerosecta edrissiana 01.JPG, Xerosecta edrissiana
File:Xerosecta_explanata_01.JPG, Xerosecta explanata
File:Xerosecta globuloidea 01.JPG, Xerosecta globuloidea
File:Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca 01.JPG, Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca
File:Xerosecta pharussica alba 01.JPG, Xerosecta pharussica alba
File:Xerosecta pharussica minor 01.JPG, Xerosecta pharussica minor
File:Xerosecta submoesta 03.JPG, Xerosecta submoesta (white form)
File:Xerosecta submoesta 02.JPG, Xerosecta submoesta (banded form)
File:Xerosecta submoesta 01.JPG, Xerosecta submoesta (brown form)
File:Xerosecta vaucheri 01.JPG, Xerosecta vaucheri
References
* Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149–152. Frankfurt am Main
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017
External links
* Species list at
* Taxonomy and a good shell image at
* Excellent info at
Monterosato, T. A. di. (1892). Molluschi terrestri delle isole adiacenti alla Sicilia. Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo. 3rd Series, 2: 1–34
J. E. (1821). A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239
Geomitridae
Gastropod genera
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