Chilostoma planospira
| Chilostoma planospira | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Chilostoma |
| Species: | C. planospira
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| Binomial name | |
| Chilostoma planospira (Férussac, 1832)
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Chilostoma planospira is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.
Anatomy
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These snails create and use love darts.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Subspecies:[2]
- Chilostoma planospira benedictum
- Chilostoma planospira macrostoma
- Chilostoma planospira occultatum
- Chilostoma planospira planospira
- Chilostoma planospira setulosum
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Fauna Europaea". www.faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chilostoma planospira.
- Species summary at: AnimalBase
- Image of live animal at: Natura Mediterraneo
- Taxonomy at: Uniprot
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