Leptaxis erubescens

Leptaxis erubescens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Leptaxis
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L. erubescens
Binomial name
Leptaxis erubescens
Lowe, 1831[1]

Anatomy

These snails create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The scanning electron microscope images shown are as follows: the upper image shows the lateral view of the dart, scale bar is 500 μm (0.5 mm). The lower image show the cross-section of the darts; the scale bar is 50 μm.

References

  1. "AnimalBase - Leptaxis erubescens". AnimalBase. Retrieved 2008-10-11.


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