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Xerosecta
A live but retracted individual of Xerosecta cespitum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Subfamily:	Helicellinae
Genus:	Xerosecta Monterosato, 1892
Type species
Helix explanata O. F. Müller, 1774
Synonyms
Cernuella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · (superseded generic combination) Cernuella (Xerosecta) Monterosato, 1892 · Helicella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · Helix (Jacosta) Gray, 1821 · (invalid: Placed on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

Xerosecta is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species

Species within the genus Xerosecta include:

• Xerosecta adolfi L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Xerosecta arigonis (A. Schmidt, 1853)
• Xerosecta brachyflagellata De Mattia & Mascia, 2014
• Xerosecta cespitum (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Xerosecta contermina (L. Pfeiffer, 1848)
• Xerosecta dohrni (Paulucci, 1882)
• Xerosecta explanata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Xerosecta giustii Manganelli & Favilli, 1996
• Xerosecta introducta (A. Villa & G. B. Villa, 1841)
• Xerosecta leptocolpata (P.M. Pallary, 1923)
• Xerosecta pharussica (P.M. Pallary, 1926)
• Xerosecta promissa (Westerlund, 1892)
• Xerosecta reboundiana (Bourguignat, 1863)
• Xerosecta sandaliotica De Mattia & Mascia, 2014
• Xerosecta terverii (Michaud, 1831)
• Xerosecta vaucheri (P.M. Pallary, 1901)

Synonyms

• Xerosecta gvozdevi Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995: synonym of Kalitinaia gvozdevi (Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995) (superseded combination, basionym)
• Xerosecta hillyeriana (M. Paulucci, 1882): synonym of Xerosecta dohrni (Paulucci, 1882)
• Xerosecta orientalis Uvalieva & Sacharnova, 1995: synonym of Kalitinaia orientalis (Uvalieva & Sacharnova, 1995) (original combination)

• Xerosecta arnaizi
• Xerosecta bodsonae
• Xerosecta brunoti
• Xerosecta castriesi
• Xerosecta cespitum
• Xerosecta edrissiana
• Xerosecta explanata
• Xerosecta globuloidea
• Xerosecta mogadorensis fusca
• Xerosecta pharussica alba
• Xerosecta pharussica minor
• Xerosecta submoesta (white form)
• Xerosecta submoesta (banded form)
• Xerosecta submoesta (brown form)
• Xerosecta vaucheri

References

1. 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.
2. WMSDB: Xerosecta leptocolpata
3. University of Michigan: Invert E Base

• Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149–152. Frankfurt am Main
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

External links

• Species list at:
• Taxonomy and a good shell image at:
• Excellent info at:
• Monterosato, T. A. di. (1892). Molluschi terrestri delle isole adiacenti alla Sicilia. Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo. 3rd Series, 2: 1–34
• J. E. (1821). A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239

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