Cepaea
- For the plant genus, see its synonym Sedum.
| Cepaea | |
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| White-lipped snail Cepaea hortensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Cepaea Held, 1838[1] |
Cepaea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. The shells of species within this genus are often brightly colored and patterned with stripes. Species from this genus, in particular the common and widespread C. nemoralis and C. hortensis, have been model species for early studies of genetics and natural selection.[2]
This genus of snails create and use love darts.
Species
Species within the genus Cepaea include:
A comparison between Cepaea hortensis (left) and Cepaea vindobonensis (right)
- Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species
- Cepaea sylvatica (Drapanaud, 1801)
- Cepaea vindobonensis (Férussac, 1821)
References
Further reading
- Yamazaki N., Ueshima R., Terrett J. A., Yokobori S., Kaifu M., Segawa R., Kobayashi T., Numachi K., Ueda T., Nishikawa K., Watanabe K. & Thomas R. H. 1997. Evolution of pulmonate gastropod mitochondrial genomes: comparisons of complete gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures. Genetics 145: 749–758.
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