Genus of gastropods
Xerosecta
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A live but retracted individual of Xerosecta cespitum
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Order:
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Stylommatophora
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Family:
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Geomitridae
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Subfamily:
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Helicellinae
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Genus:
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Xerosecta Monterosato, 1892
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Type species
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Helix explanata
O. F. Müller, 1774
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Synonyms
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- Cernuella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · (superseded generic combination)
- Cernuella (Xerosecta) Monterosato, 1892 ·
- Helicella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 ·
- Helix (Jacosta) Gray, 1821 · (invalid: Placed on Index)
- Jacosta Gray, 1821 · (invalid: Placed on the Official...)
- Polloneria Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1939 · (homonym: non Clausilia...)
- Polloneriella Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1940 ·
- Xerambigua Monterosato, 1892 ·
- Xeromagna Monterosato, 1892 ·
- Xeromoesta Monterosato, 1892 ·
- Xerosecta (Polloneriella) Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1940 · alternate representation
- Xerosecta (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · alternate representation
- Xerosecta (Xerosecta) Monterosato, 1892 · alternate representation
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Xerosecta is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae,[1] the hairy snails and their allies.
Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
- ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. PMID 25485783.