Helix lucorum
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Helix lucorum is a species
of large, edible, air-breathing land snail
or escargot, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family
Helicidae
, the typical snails.
exist for Helix lucorum:
This species of snail makes and uses love dart
s.
The size of the egg is 4.4 mm.
Asia: Israel
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of large, edible, 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...
or escargot, a 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 mollusk 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.
Synonyms
Numerous synonymsSynonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...
exist for Helix lucorum:
- Helix anaphora Westerlund, 1889
- Helix annosa Mascarini, 1892
- Helix atrocincta Bourguignat, 1883
- Helix candida Mascarini, 1892
- Helix elongata Bourguignat, 1860
- Helix nigrozonata Bourguignat, 1883
- Helix presbensis Kobelt, 1905
- Helix rypara Bourguignat, 1883
- Helix straminea Briganti, 1825
- Helix straminiformis Bourguignat, 1876
- Helix virago Bourguignat, 1883
- Helix yleobia Bourguignat, 1883
Description
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.
The size of the egg is 4.4 mm.
Distribution
Europe- Eastern Europe - Eastern coast of Black sea
- Southern Europe - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Sardinia, Yugoslavia, Turkey
- Western Europe - France (introduced)
Asia: Israel
External links
- http://szmn.sbras.ru/picts/Mollusca/Helix_lucorum.htm
- http://www.jaxshells.org/818d.htm
- http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=277677
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