''Marmorana serpentina'' is a species of 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 ...

mollusc 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 esti ...

in the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Marmorana serpentina (A. Férussac, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1049685 on 2021-06-24 Marmorana serpentina 01

;Subspecies: * ''Marmorana serpentina carae'' (Cantraine, 1840) * ''Marmorana serpentina circeja'' (Kobelt, 1903) * ''Marmorana serpentina hospitans'' (Rossmässler, 1836) * ''Marmorana serpentina isarae'' (Paulucci, 1882) * ''Marmorana serpentina isilensis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1848) * ''Marmorana serpentina jaspidaea'' (Moquin-Tandon, 1855) * ''Marmorana serpentina serpentina'' (A. Férussac, 1821)

Distribution

This species of snail occurs in the area of Alghero, in western Sardinia; also in

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

Anatomy

This snail creates and uses love darts as part of its mating behavior.

References

* Benoit, C. L. (1857-1862). Illustrazione sistematica critica iconografica de'testacei estramarini della Sicilia ulteriore e delle isole circostanti. I-XVI, 1-248, Tav. I-IX, XI-XII art 1 pp. I-XVI, 1-52 (1857 [sic; Part 2 pp. 53–116 (1857); Part 3 pp. 117–180 (1859); Part 4 pp. 181–248 (1862)">ic.html" ;"title="art 1 pp. I-XVI, 1-52 (1857 [sic">art 1 pp. I-XVI, 1-52 (1857 [sic; Part 2 pp. 53–116 (1857); Part 3 pp. 117–180 (1859); Part 4 pp. 181–248 (1862) Napoli. (Nobile). * Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

''Marmorana serpentina'' at AnimalBase

Images of live animal and shells

Crosse H. & Debeaux O. (1869). Description de deux Hélices nouvelles de Corse. Journal de Conchyliologie. 17(1): 51-55
Helicidae Gastropods described in 1821 {{Helicidae-stub