Parmacella is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae.
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| Live individual of Parmacella valenciennii, head end towards the right | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Parmacellidae |
| Genus: | Parmacella Cuvier, 1804[1] |
Slugs within this genus create and use love darts.
Species
editSpecies within the genus Parmacella include:[2][3]
- Cryptella canariensis Webb & Berthelot, 1833 / Parmacella canariensis (Webb & Berthelot, 1833)
- Parmacella deshayesi Moquin-Tandon, 1848
- Parmacella festae Gambetta, 1925
- Parmacella gervaisii Moquin-Tandon, 1850 - extinct[4]
- Parmacella ibera Eichwald, 1841[5]
- Parmacella olivieri Cuvier, 1804 - type species
- Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985
- Parmacella valenciennii Webb & Van Beneden, 1836
References
edit- ^ (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.
- ^ Parmacella. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.
- ^ Species in genus Parmacella. AnimalBase, accessed 19 November 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
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