Helicigona
Encyclopedia
Helicigona is a genus
of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family
Helicidae
, the typical snails.
These snails create and use love dart
s during mating.
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 medium-sized, air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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....
, the typical snails.
Anatomy
Love dart
A love dart is a hard, long, sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place...
s during mating.
Species
Species within the genus Helicigona include:- Helicigona banatica
- Helicigona cingulata
- Helicigona cingulella
- Helicigona cornea
- Helicigona cyclolabis
- Helicigona eichwaldi
- Helicigona faustina
- Helicigona foeteus
- Helicigona furva
- Helicigona glacialis
- Helicigona hoffmanni
- Helicigona insolita
- Helicigona kleciachi
- Helicigona lapicidaHelicigona lapicidaHelicigona lapicida is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.-Anatomy:This species of snail makes and uses love darts during mating....
- Helicigona olympica
- Helicigona phocea
- Helicigona planospira
- Helicigona pratensis
- Helicigona presli
- Helicigona quimpereana
- Helicigona rumelica
- Helicigona schmidtii
- Helicigona serbica
- Helicigona setigera
- Helicigona setosa
- Helicigona terceirana
- Helicigona tiesenhauseni
- Helicigona trizona