''Arianta'' is a medium-sized

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of European

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the

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Helicidae Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails." A number of species in this family are valued as food items, including ''Cornu aspersum'' (formerly ''Helix aspersa'') the b ...

. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous

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. The ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Arianta'' include: * '' Arianta aethyops'' (Bielz, 1851) * ''

Arianta arbustorum ''Arianta arbustorum'' is a medium-sized species of land snail, sometimes known as the "copse snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758). ...

'' (

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 ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

) * '' Arianta chamaeleon'' ( Pfeiffer, 1868) * '' Arianta frangepanii'' (Kormos, 1906) * '' Arianta hessei'' (M. Kimakowicz, 1883) * '' Arianta picea'' (Rossmässler, 1837) * ''

Arianta schmidtii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Rossmässler, 1836) * ''

Arianta stenzii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Rossmässler, 1835) * ''

Arianta xatartii ''Arianta'' is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts. Species Species within the genus ''Arianta'' ...

'' (Farines, 1834)

References

* Groenenberg D.S.J., Subai P. & Gittenberger E. (2016). Systematics of Ariantinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae), a new approach to an old problem. Contributions to Zoology. 85(1): 37-65

External links

Species list

AnimalBase

Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Zweite Ausgabe. I-XVIII, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman

Turton, W. (1831). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, arranged according to the more modern system of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species, viii + 152 + 16 pp.): Index of English names), 9 unnumbered plates. London (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green).
Helicidae Gastropod genera Taxa named by William Turton {{Helicidae-stub