Xerosecta

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:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Xerosecta Monterosato, 1892

Xerosecta is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, 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 bodsonae
• 
  Xerosecta castriesi
• 
  Xerosecta cespitum
• 
  Xerosecta edrissiana
• 
  Xerosecta explanata
• 
  Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca
• 
  Xerosecta submoesta (white form)
• 
  Xerosecta submoesta (banded form)
• 
  Xerosecta submoesta (brown form)
• 
  Xerosecta vaucheri

External links

• Species list at: [1]
• Taxonomy and a good shell image at: [2]
• Excellent info at: [3]