Arianta
Encyclopedia
Arianta is a medium-sized genus
of European land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family
Helicidae
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Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of European land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Helicidae
Helicidae
The Helicidae, sometimes known as the typical snails, are a taxonomic family of small to large, air-breathing, land snails. In other words, they are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....
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Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts.
Species
Species within the genus Arianta include:- Arianta aethyops (Bielz, 1851)
- Arianta arbustorumArianta arbustorumArianta arbustorum is a medium-sized species of land snail, sometimes known as the "copse snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.-Subspecies:Several subspecies are recognized by some authors:...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Arianta chamaeleon (Pfeiffer, 1868)
- Arianta schmidtii (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Arianta stenzii (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Arianta xatartii (Farines, 1834)