Arianta

Genus of gastropods

Arianta
Arianta arbustorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Ariantinae
Genus: Arianta
Turton, 1831
Synonyms
  • Altarianta Schileyko, 2013
  • Arionta Martens, 1860
  • Helicigona (Arianta) W. Turton, 1831
  • Helix (Arionta) Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation of Arianta)

Arianta is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae.

Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts.

Species

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)

References

  • 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arianta.
  • Species list
  • AnimalBase
  • 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).
Taxon identifiers
Arianta


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