Fruticicola

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Fruticicola
Fruticicola fruticum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Bradybaeninae
Tribe: Bradybaenini
Genus: Fruticicola
Held, 1838[1]
Type species
Helix fruticum Müller, 1774
Synonyms
  • Eulota Hartmann, 1841
  • Helix (Eulota) W. Hartmann, 1841 (unaccepted rank)
  • Helix (Fruticicola) Held, 1838 (considered a separate genus)
  • Hygromia (Fruticicola) Held, 1838 (considered as a separate genus)
  • Kaznakoviella Lindholm, 1922
  • Koreanohadra Kuroda & Habe, 1949
  • Virginihelix Kuroda & Habe, 1949

Fruticicola is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, which are terrestrial molluscs in the tribe Bradybaenini of the subfamily Bradybaeninae in the family Camaenidae.[2]

Species of snail in this genus create and use love darts prior to mating.

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