Arianta
Arianta
Genus of gastropods
Arianta is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae.
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| Arianta | |
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| Arianta arbustorum | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ariantinae |
| Genus: | Arianta Turton, 1831 |
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Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts.
Species within the genus Arianta include:
- Arianta aethyops (Bielz, 1851)
- Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Arianta chamaeleon (Pfeiffer, 1868)
- Arianta frangepanii (Kormos, 1906)
- Arianta hessei (M. Kimakowicz, 1883)
- Arianta picea (Rossmässler, 1837)
- Arianta schmidtii (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Arianta stenzii (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Arianta xatartii (Farines, 1834)
- Groenenberg D.S.J., Subai P. & Gittenberger E. (2016). Systematics of Ariantinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae), a new approach to an old problem. Contributions to Zoology. 85(1): 37-65
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- Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Zweite Ausgabe. I-XVIII, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman
- Turton, W. (1831). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, arranged according to the more modern system of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species, viii + 152 + 16 pp.): Index of English names), 9 unnumbered plates. London (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green).
