Xerosecta

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Cernuella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · (superseded generic combination) Cernuella (Xerosecta) Monterosato, 1892 · Helicella (Xeromagna) Monterosato, 1892 · Helix (Jacosta) Gray, 1821 · (invalid: Placed on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,^[1] the hairy snails and their allies.

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

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gvozdevi Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995: synonym of Kalitinaia gvozdevi (Soboleva, Rymzhanov & Plachov, 1995) (superseded combination, basionym)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)

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

• 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Xerosecta.

• Species list at: [1]
• Taxonomy and a good shell image at: [2]
• Excellent info at: [3]
• 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