Xerosecta
Genus of gastropods
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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.
| Xerosecta | |
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| A live but retracted individual of Xerosecta cespitum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Subfamily: | Helicellinae |
| Genus: | Xerosecta Monterosato, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| Helix explanata O. F. Müller, 1774 | |
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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)[2]
- Xerosecta pharussica (P.M. Pallary, 1926)[3]
- 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gvozdevi Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995: synonym of Kalitinaia gvozdevi (Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995) (superseded combination, basionym)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
