Chilostoma cingulatum

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Chilostoma cingulatum
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Chilostoma cingulatum baldense(Rossmässler, 1839)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Chilostoma
Species:
C. cingulatum
Binomial name
Chilostoma cingulatum
(Studer, 1820) [1]
Synonyms
  • Chilostoma (Cingulifera) cingulatum(S. Studer, 1820)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Glischrus cingulataStuder, 1820 (original combination)
  • Helix (Glischrus) cingulataStuder, 1820

Chilostoma cingulatum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

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Subspecies

Habitat

The species is found only on limestone rocks.

Life cycle

The scanning electron microscope images show (above) the lateral view of the love dart, scale bar 500 mm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 mm. Chilostoma cingulatum SEM dart.jpg
The scanning electron microscope images show (above) the lateral view of the love dart, scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 μm.

The diameter of the egg of this species is 3.3 mm. [2]

These snails create and use love darts during mating.

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References

  1. ↑ Studer S. 1820. Kurzes Verzeichniss der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien. Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 3 (11): 83-90, 91-94. Bern.
  2. ↑ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs . CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN   0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.


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