Helminthoglypta tudiculata

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Helminthoglypta tudiculata
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Three views of a shell of Helminthoglypta tudiculata from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Xanthonychidae
Genus: Helminthoglypta
Species:
H. tudiculata
Binomial name
Helminthoglypta tudiculata
(I. Lea, 1838)

Helminthoglypta tudiculata, common names the southern California shoulderband or southern shoulderband, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.

This snail is endemic to the United States.

Anatomy

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

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References

  1. Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 16.