Parmacella

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

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

Slugs within this genus create and use love darts.

Species

Species within the genus Parmacella include:

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. (December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories" (PDF). Ruthenica. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.