Xerosecta
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Xerosecta | |
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A live but retracted individual of Xerosecta cespitum | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Genus: | Xerosecta Monterosato, 1892
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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.
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
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Xerosecta arnaizi
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Xerosecta bodsonae
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Xerosecta brunoti
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Xerosecta castriesi
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Xerosecta cespitum
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Xerosecta edrissiana
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Xerosecta explanata
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Xerosecta globuloidea
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Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca
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Xerosecta pharussica alba
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Xerosecta pharussica minor
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Xerosecta submoesta (white form)
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Xerosecta submoesta (banded form)
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Xerosecta submoesta (brown form)
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Xerosecta vaucheri
References
- ^ 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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