Chilostoma planospira

Chilostoma planospira is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

Chilostoma planospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Stylommatophora
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Chilostoma
Species:
C. planospira
Binomial name
Chilostoma planospira
(Férussac, 1832)

Anatomy
Love dart of Chilostoma planospira.

These snails create and use love darts.[1]

Taxonomy

Subspecies:[2]

  • Chilostoma planospira benedictum
  • Chilostoma planospira macrostoma
  • Chilostoma planospira occultatum
  • Chilostoma planospira planospira
  • Chilostoma planospira setulosum
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References
  1. Joris M. Koene and Hinrich Schulenburg (2005). "Shooting darts: co-evolution and counter-adaptation in hermaphroditic snails". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 5: 25. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-25. PMC 1080126. PMID 15799778.
  2. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=426636 accessed 19 March 2011


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