Parmarion
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| Parmarion | |
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| File:Yellow-shelled Semi-slug (Parmarion martensi) (8066259575).jpg | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Ariophantidae |
| Genus: | Parmarion Fischer, 1856[1] |
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Parmarion is a genus of air-breathing land semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. Parmarion is the type genus of the Parmarioninae, which is a synonym of Ostracolethinae.[2]
Species of snails within this family make and use love darts.
Species
[edit | edit source]Species within the genus Parmarion include:
- Parmarion martensi Simroth, 1893
- Parmarion kersteni von Martens, 1869
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Fischer (1856). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 20: 395.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1950). "Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II. Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-snails of the families Helicarionidae, Pleurodontidae, Fruticicolidae & Streptaxidae". Treubia 20: 381-505.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Taxonomy: [1]
- Image of a mating pair at [permanent dead link][permanent dead link]
- Image of an individual: [permanent dead link]
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