''Humboldtiana'' is a

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of American 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 ...

s, 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 ...

s in the subfamily Humboldtianinae.

Anatomy

Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The scanning electron microscope images on the left show (above) the lateral view of the love dart of ''

Humboldtiana nuevoleonis ''Humboldtiana nuevoleonis'' is a species of American air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Humboldtianidae. Anatomy Snails in this species create and use love darts A love dart (also know ...

'', scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 μm.

Species

Species within the genus ''Humboldtiana'' include: * '' Humboldtiana agavophila'' Pratt, 1971Pratt W. L. (25 May 1971). "''Humboldtiana agavophila'', a New Helminthoglyptid Land Snail from the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas". '' The Southwestern Naturalist'' 15(4): 429-435
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Humboldtiana hoegiana ''Humboldtiana'' is a genus of American air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Humboldtianinae. Anatomy Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The sca ...

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Humboldtiana ultima ''Humboldtiana'' is a genus of American air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Humboldtianinae. Anatomy Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The sca ...

Anatomy

Species

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