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Helicigona Lapicida
''Helicigona lapicida'' is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicigona lapicida (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003372 on 2021-02-01 ;Subspecies: * ''Helicigona lapicida andorrica'' (Bourguignat, 1876) * ''Helicigona lapicida lapicida'' (Linnaeus, 1758) Anatomy This species of snail makes and uses love darts during mating. Distribution This species is native to Europe, especially Central Europe. Shell description The shell of this species is approximately 20 mm in maximum dimension. The periphery of the shell is sharply keeled. There is a wide umbilicus. The peristome around the aperture is white and strongly reflected and lipped. The shell color is grey-brown with some red brown patches. References * Janus, Horst, 1965. ' ...
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France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ...
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Love Dart
A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place. Darts are quite large compared to the size of the animal: in the case of the semi-slug genus ''Parmarion'', the length of a dart can be up to one fifth that of the semi-slug's foot. The process of using love darts in snails is a form of sexual selection. Prior to copulation, each of the two snails (or slugs) attempts to "shoot" one (or more) darts into the other snail (or slug). There is no organ to receive the dart; this action is more analogous to stabbing, or to being shot with an arrow or flechette. The dart does not fly through the air to reach its target, but is "fired" as a contact shot. ...
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Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI). , Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names. Its construction was initially funded by the European Council (2000–2004). The project was co-ordinated by the University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ... which launched the first version in 2004, after which the database was transferred to the Natural History Museum Berlin in 2015. References External links Fauna Europaea
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Encyclopedia Of Life
The ''Encyclopedia of Life'' (''EOL'') is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing trusted databases curated by experts and with the assistance of non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively. The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institutio ...
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Animalbase
AnimalBase is a project brought to life in 2004 and is maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany. The goal of the AnimalBase project is to digitize early zoological literature, provide copyright-free open access to zoological works, and provide manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species as a free resource for the public. AnimalBase contributed to opening up the classical taxonomic literature, which is considered as useful because access to early literature (especially for the late 18th century) can be difficult for researchers who need the old sources for their taxonomic research. AnimalBase data are public domain. The public use of AnimalBase data is not restricted or conditioned.AnimalBase Project Group, 2005-2010. AnimalBase. Early zoological literature online. World wide web electronic publication http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de accessed 30 July 2010. AnimalBase covers all zoological disciplines. In the field of biodiversity informatics A ...
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Aperture (mollusc)
The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc. The term ''aperture'' is used for the main opening in gastropod shells, scaphopod shells, and also for ''Nautilus'' and ammonite shells. The word is not used to describe bivalve shells, where a natural opening between the two shell valves in the closed position is usually called a ''gape''. Scaphopod shells are tubular, and thus they have two openings: a main anterior aperture and a smaller posterior aperture. As well as the aperture, some gastropod shells have additional openings in their shells for respiration; this is the case in some Fissurellidae (keyhole limpets) where the central smaller opening at the apex of the shell is called an orifice, and in the Haliotidae (abalones) where the row of respiratory openings in the shell are also called orifices. In gastropods In some prosobranch ...
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Helicigona Lapicida Andorrica 01
''Helicigona'' is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariantinae of the family Helicidae, the typical snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicigona A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871104 on 2021-02-01 Anatomy These snails create and use love darts during mating. Species Species within the genus ''Helicigona'' include: * † '' Helicigona atava'' Wenz, 1927 * ''Helicigona banatica'' * † '' Helicigona chaignoni'' (Locard, 1883) * '' Helicigona cingulata'' * '' Helicigona cingulella'' * ''Helicigona cornea'' * '' Helicigona cyclolabis'' * '' Helicigona eichwaldi'' * '' Helicigona faustina'' * ''Helicigona foeteus'' * ''Helicigona furva'' * ''Helicigona glacialis'' * ''Helicigona hoffmanni'' * ''Helicigona insolita'' * ''Helicigona kleciachi'' * ''Helicigona lapicida'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Helicig ...
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Helicigona Lapicida Lapicida 017
''Helicigona'' is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariantinae of the family Helicidae, the typical snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicigona A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871104 on 2021-02-01 Anatomy These snails create and use love darts during mating. Species Species within the genus ''Helicigona'' include: * † '' Helicigona atava'' Wenz, 1927 * ''Helicigona banatica'' * † '' Helicigona chaignoni'' (Locard, 1883) * '' Helicigona cingulata'' * '' Helicigona cingulella'' * ''Helicigona cornea'' * '' Helicigona cyclolabis'' * '' Helicigona eichwaldi'' * '' Helicigona faustina'' * ''Helicigona foeteus'' * ''Helicigona furva'' * ''Helicigona glacialis'' * ''Helicigona hoffmanni'' * ''Helicigona insolita'' * ''Helicigona kleciachi'' * ''Helicigona lapicida'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Helicig ...
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Central Europe
Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the area's history. The concept of "Central Europe" appeared in the 19th century. Central Europe comprised most of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the two neighboring kingdoms of Poland and Hungary. Hungary and parts of Poland were later part of the Habsburg monarchy, which also significantly shaped the history of Central Europe. Unlike their Western European (Portugal, Spain et al.) and Eastern European (Russia) counterparts, the Central European nations never had any notable colonies (either overseas or adjacent) due to their inland location and other factors. It has often been argued that one of the contributing causes of both World War I and World War II was Germany's lack of original overseas colonies. After World War ...
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Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and E ...
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Helicigona Lapicida Dart
''Helicigona'' is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ariantinae of the family Helicidae, the typical snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helicigona A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871104 on 2021-02-01 Anatomy These snails create and use love darts during mating. Species Species within the genus ''Helicigona'' include: * † '' Helicigona atava'' Wenz, 1927 * ''Helicigona banatica'' * † '' Helicigona chaignoni'' (Locard, 1883) * '' Helicigona cingulata'' * '' Helicigona cingulella'' * ''Helicigona cornea'' * '' Helicigona cyclolabis'' * '' Helicigona eichwaldi'' * '' Helicigona faustina'' * ''Helicigona foeteus'' * ''Helicigona furva'' * ''Helicigona glacialis'' * ''Helicigona hoffmanni'' * ''Helicigona insolita'' * ''Helicigona kleciachi'' * ''Helicigona lapicida'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Helicig ...
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ...
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