Humboldtiana is a genus of American air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Humboldtianinae.[2]

Humboldtiana
Humboldtiana humboldtiana shells
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Xanthonychidae
Genus: Humboldtiana
H. von Ihering, 1892[1]

Anatomy

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love dart of Humboldtiana nuevoleonis

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

The scanning electron microscope images on the left show (above) the lateral view of the love dart of Humboldtiana nuevoleonis, scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 μm.

Species

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Species within the genus Humboldtiana include:

References

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  1. ^ Ihering (1892). Z. wiss. Zool. 54: 472.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2): 1–397.
  3. ^ Pratt W. L. (25 May 1971). "Humboldtiana agavophila, a New Helminthoglyptid Land Snail from the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas". The Southwestern Naturalist 15(4): 429-435. JSTOR.

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