Leptaxis

Leptaxis
Leptaxis groviana (Férussac, 1832)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Leptaxis Lowe, 1852
Synonyms[1]
Helix (Cryptaxis) R. T. Lowe, 1855 Helix (Katostoma) R. T. Lowe, 1855 (basionym) Helix (Leptaxis) R. T. Lowe, 1852 Leptaxis (Cryptaxis) R. T. Lowe, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Leptaxis (Helixena) Backhuys, 1975· accepted, alternate representation Leptaxis (Katostoma) R. T. Lowe, 1855· accepted, alternate representation Leptaxis (Leptaxis) R. T. Lowe, 1852· accepted, alternate representation

Leptaxis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the typical snails.^[1]

Species within this genus of snails create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Species[]

Species within the genus Leptaxis include:

• Albers, 1852
• (Albers, 1856)
• Leptaxis caldeirarum (Morelet & Drouët, 1857) (uncertain status)
• † (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
• (Morelet, 1860)
• Leptaxis erubescens Lowe, 1831
• † (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• Leptaxis furva (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
• (A. Férussac, 1832)
• † Teixeira & Groh, 2019
• (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• Backhuys, 1975 (uncertain status)
• Leptaxis nivosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
• † Gittenberger & Ripken, 1985
• † (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
• (Morelet & Drouët, 1857)
• Leptaxis simia (A. Férussac, 1832)
• Leptaxis terceirana (Morelet, 1860) (uncertain status)
• Leptaxis undata (Lowe, 1831)
• † Leptaxis vetusa (Morelet & Drouët, 1857)
• Leptaxis wollastoni (R. T. Lowe, 1852)

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• Mentioned at: [1]
• Lowe, R. T. (1852). Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2) 9 (50)
• Lowe, R. T. (1855 ["1854"). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 161-208]

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