Parmacella

Parmacella is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae.

Parmacella
Live individual of Parmacella valenciennii, head end towards the right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Parmacellidae
Genus: Parmacella
Cuvier, 1804[1]

Slugs within this genus create and use love darts.

Species

Species within the genus Parmacella include:[2][3]

References

  1. (in French) Cuvier G. (1804). "Mémoire sur la dolabelle, sur la testacelle et sur un nouveau genre de mollusques à coquille cachée, nommée parmacelle". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 5(30): 435-444, Plate 29, figure 12-15. Paris.
  2. Parmacella. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.
  3. Species in genus Parmacella. AnimalBase, accessed 19 November 2009.
  4. Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
  5. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.


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