Rossmaessleria
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| Shell of Rossmaessleria sultana (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
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| Genus: | Rossmaessleria P. Hesse, 1907 |
Rossmaessleria is a genus of land snails in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.[1]
Distribution[]
This genus of snail is native to northwestern Africa and southwestern Europe.
Anatomy[]
These snails create and shoot love darts as part of their courtship and mating behavior.
Species[]
Species within the genus Rossmaessleria include:
- (Kobelt, 1881)
- Torres & Ahuir Galindo, 2011
- (Rutllant, 1974)
- Galindo, 2017
- Galindo, 2017
- Galindo, 2017
- (L. Pfeiffer & Zelebor, 1867)
- (Kobelt, 1881)
- (Böttger)
- (P.M.A. Morelet, 1880)
- (Kobelt)
- (Rutllant)
- (Kobelt, 1881)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Rossmaessleria anticana Pallary, 1928: synonym of Rossmaessleria scherzeri fichtalana (Pallary, 1919) (original combination)
- Rossmaessleria vondeli Pallary, 1928: synonym of (Mousson, 1873) (original combination)
References[]
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- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rossmaessleria P. Hesse, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996441 on 2021-02-22
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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