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)

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

Love dart of Chilostoma planospira.

These snails create and use love darts.[1]

Taxonomy

Subspecies:[2]

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. ^ "Fauna Europaea". www.faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2011.

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