Cepaea

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropodae
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Heterobranchia
Ordo: Pulmonata
Subordo: Eupulmonata
Clade: Stylommatophora
Cladus: Orthurethra
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Superfamilia: Helicoidea
Familia: Helicidae
Subfamilia: Helicinae
Tribus: Helicini
Genus: Cepaea
Subgenera: C. (Cepaea) - C. (Austrotachea)
Species: †C. bohemica - C. bulla - C. caesalpini - C. dacica - C. hortensis - C. nemoralis - C. subsulcosa - C. sylvatica - C. vindobonensis

Name

Cepaea Held, 1838

References

* Held, F. 1838. Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. (Fortsetzung.). - Isis 1837 (12): 902-921. Leipzig.
* uBio
* AnimalBase
* BioLib

Vernacular names
Česky: páskovka
Deutsch: Schnirkelschnecken

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Cepaea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. The shells of species within this genus are often brightly colored and patterned with stripes.

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

1. ^ Held F. 1838. Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. (Fortsetzung.). - Isis 1837 (12): 902-921. Leipzig.

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.