''Chilostoma cingulatum'' is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing
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 ...
, a
terrestrial 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 ...
in the family
Helicidae, the true snails.
;Subspecies:
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum adamii''
(Pini, 1876)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum alzonai''
K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense''
(De Betta, 1852)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum anconae''
(Gentiluomo, 1868)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum appelii''
(Kobelt, 1876)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum asperulum''
(Ehrmann, 1910)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum baldense''
(Rossmässler, 1839)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum bizona''
(Rossmässler, 1842)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum boccavallense''
K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum carrarense''
(Strobel, 1852)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum cingulatum''
(S. Studer, 1820)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum''
(De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidescens''
(Del Prete, 1879)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidissimum''
(Paulucci, 1881)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum frigidosum''
(Pollonera, 1890)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum gobanzi''
(Frauenfeld, 1867)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum hermesianum''
(Pini, 1874)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum infernale''
(P. Hesse, 1931)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum insubricum''
(De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum medoacense''
(Adami, 1886)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum montanum''
(Paulucci, 1881)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis''
(Costa, 1836)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum nicolisianum''
(Adami, 1886)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum peregrini''
Falkner, 1998
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum philippii''
(Kobelt, 1905)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum preslii''
(Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum sentinense''
(Piersanti, 1833)
* ''Chilostoma cingulatum transiens''
(Adami, 1886)
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_anauniense_01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_baldense_01.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum baldense
File:Chilostoma_cingulatum_colubrinum_01.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum
File:Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis 01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis
File:Chilostoma cingulatum preslii 01.JPG, Chilostoma cingulatum preslii
File:Chilostoma cingulatum preslii 02.jpg, Chilostoma cingulatum preslii
(Flat form)
Habitat
The species is found only on limestone rocks.
Life cycle
The diameter of the egg of this species is 3.3 mm.
[Heller J.: ''Life History Strategies''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ]
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited page: 428.
These snails create and use
love darts during mating.
References
External links
* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1358
Chilostoma
Gastropods described in 1820
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