Xerosecta

Xerosecta is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae[1], the hairy snails and their allies.

Xerosecta
A live but retracted individual of Xerosecta cespitum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Geomitridae
Genus:
Xerosecta

Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species

Species within the genus Xerosecta include:

  • Xerosecta adolfi
  • Xerosecta arigonis
  • Xerosecta cespitum
  • Xerosecta contermina
  • Xerosecta conspurcata
  • Xerosecta dohrni
  • Xerosecta explanata
  • Xerosecta giustii
  • Xerosecta hillyeriana
  • Xerosecta introducta
  • Xerosecta promissa
  • Xerosecta reboundiana
  • Xerosecta terverii
  • Xerosecta vaucheri
  • Xerosecta pharussica









  • Xerosecta arnaizi
  • Xerosecta bodsonae
  • Xerosecta brunoti
  • Xerosecta castriesi
  • Xerosecta cespitum
  • Xerosecta edrissiana
  • Xerosecta explanata
  • Xerosecta globuloidea
  • Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca
  • Xerosecta pharussica alba
  • Xerosecta pharussica minor
  • Xerosecta submoesta (white form)
  • Xerosecta submoesta (banded form)
  • Xerosecta submoesta (brown form)
  • Xerosecta vaucheri
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References
  1. Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. PMID 25485783.
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