Parmarion
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | Parmarion |
Parmarion is a genus of air-breathing land semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. Parmarion is the type genus of the Parmarioninae, which is a synonym of Ostracolethinae.[1]
Species of snails within this family make and use love darts.
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Parmarion include:
- Parmarion martensi Simroth, 1893
- Parmarion kersteni von Martens, 1869
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Fischer (1856). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 20: 395.
Further reading
[edit]- van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1950). "Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II. Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-snails of the families Helicarionidae, Pleurodontidae, Fruticicolidae & Streptaxidae". Treubia 20: 381-505.
External links
[edit]- Taxonomy: [1]
- Image of a mating pair at [permanent dead link]
- Image of an individual: [permanent dead link]
