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Parmacella
''Parmacella'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae. Slugs within this genus create and use love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Parmacella'' include: * '' Parmacella olivieri'' Cuvier, 1804 - type species * '' Parmacella tenerifensis'' Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985 * ''Parmacella valenciennii ''Parmacella valenciennii'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution The distribution of ''Parmacella valenciennii'' includes: * Southern Portugal (south of ...'' Webb & Van Beneden, 1836 References Parmacellidae Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Heterobranchia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Canariensis
''Parmacella'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae. Slugs within this genus create and use love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Parmacella'' include: * '' Parmacella olivieri'' Cuvier, 1804 - type species * '' Parmacella tenerifensis'' Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985 * ''Parmacella valenciennii ''Parmacella valenciennii'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution The distribution of ''Parmacella valenciennii'' includes: * Southern Portugal (south of ...'' Webb & Van Beneden, 1836 References Parmacellidae Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Heterobranchia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Ibera
''Parmacella'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae. Slugs within this genus create and use love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Parmacella'' include: * ''Parmacella olivieri'' Cuvier, 1804 - type species * '' Parmacella tenerifensis'' Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985 * ''Parmacella valenciennii ''Parmacella valenciennii'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution The distribution of ''Parmacella valenciennii'' includes: * Southern Portugal (south of ...'' Webb & Van Beneden, 1836 References Parmacellidae Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Heterobranchia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Olivieri
''Parmacella olivieri'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. ''Parmacella olivieri'' is the type species of the genus ''Parmacella''. Distribution The distribution of this species includes: * Northern Egypt * Northern Libya Description The shell is very narrow, thick-walled. The apex is smooth and glossy amber golden. There are several tubercles and wrinkles in the aperture. The animal is brown with chocolate brown bands on the mantle. The mantle is up to 20 mm long. The whole animal up to 32 mm long. References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference."Species summary for ''Parmacella olivieri''" |
Parmacella Valenciennii
''Parmacella valenciennii'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution The distribution of ''Parmacella valenciennii'' includes: * Southern Portugal (south of Lisboa), It is very abundant in Alentejo. * Spain * Isolated area(s) in southern France Description The animal is brownish red to brownish olive, with black bands on the mantle. Adult specimens are lighter. The body is sharply keeled in the posterior section. The mantle length in young animals is about 3/4 of the body length. The mantle is rounded in the anterior part and pointed in posterior part. The animal is up to 100 mm long, usually 70–80 mm long and 20 mm in width. The shell is yellow, triangular, fragile and flat, with 1.5 whorls. The length of the shell is 15 mm, 9 mm in width and 2–3 mm high. ''Parmacella valenciennii'' differs anatomically from all other ''Parmacella'' species by a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Gervaisii
''Parmacella gervaisii'' is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. ''Parmacella gervaisii'' is considered to be extinct. Distribution This species was endemic to the area near Arles, France. Description The animal is brown with olive green hue. The shell is solid, greenish yellow, shiny, entirely opaque, concentrically striated, with 1.25 whorls, anterior part is 3 times larger than posterior part, rounded. The length of the shell is 11–12 mm. The width of the shell is 7 mm. The height of the shell is 2-2.3 mm. Ecology It was observed to occur almost always in pairs in April. References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference."Species summary for ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Tenerifensis
''Parmacella tenerifensis'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. This slug is listed as endangered species in the ''IUCN Red List of Threatened Species'', but it is listed as Vulnerable species in the ''Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain''. Description This species is brown in color. Distribution This species is endemic to the area east of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ....Ibáñez M. & Alonso M. R. (2005) "''Parmacella tenerifensis'' Alonso, Ibáñez y Díaz, 1985"page 397. In: Verdú J. R. & Galante E. (eds.) (2005). ''Libro Rojo de los Invertebrados de España'' 'Red Book of Invertebrates of Spain'' Dirección General de Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacella Festae
''Parmacella festae'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution The distribution of this species includes: * Northern Egypt * Northern Libya Description The animal is an evenly light ochreous cream in color. The mantle is up to 30 mm long. The whole animal is up to 55 mm long. The shell has a thick and golden-yellow apex which is covered with minute pits regularly arranged in spiral rows (only visible under magnification when the shell is dried). References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference."Species summary for ''Parmacella festae''" |
Parmacella Deshayesi
''Parmacella deshayesi'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae. Distribution Distribution of this species include: * Algeria * Morocco * It could also occur in the Iberian Peninsula. Description The animal is evenly brown, in the young animals sometimes with blackish streaks or spots. The mantle A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of cloak. Several other meanings are derived from that. Mantle may refer to: *Mantle (clothing), a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear **Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox ve ... length is 55% of body. The size of preserved specimen is up to 60 mm. The shell is thin-walled, delicate. The apex is completely smooth, yellow. References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptella Canariensis
''Cryptella canariensis'' , accessed 1 September. is a of air-breathing land semislug with a small , a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parmacellidae
Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin. Distribution The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic, and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan. ** subgenus '' Levanderiella'' Schileyko, 2007Schileyko A. A. (2007). "''Levanderiella'', a new name for ''Levanderia'' Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". ''Ruthenica'' 17(1-2): 84PDF * '' Cryptella'' Webb & Berthelot, 1833Parmacellidae |
Slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name ''snail'', which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract their soft parts into it). Various taxonomic families of land slugs form part of several quite different evolutionary lineages, which also include snails. Thus, the various families of slugs are not closely related, despite a superficial similarity in the overall body form. The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently as an example of convergent evolution, and thus the category "slug" is polyphyletic. Taxonomy Of the six orders of Pulmonata, two – the Onchidiacea and Soleolifera – solely comprise slugs. A third family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Darts
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
