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Arianta
Genus of gastropods
Arianta is a medium-sized genus of European land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae.
Species of snails within this genus make and use calcareous love darts.
01Species
Species within the genus Arianta include:
- Arianta aethyops (Bielz, 1851)
- Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Arianta chamaeleon (Pfeiffer, 1868)
- Arianta frangepanii (Kormos, 1906)
- Arianta hessei (M. Kimakowicz, 1883)
- Arianta picea (Rossmässler, 1837)
- Arianta schmidtii (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Arianta stenzii (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Arianta xatartii (Farines, 1834)
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