Parmacella Explained

Parmacella is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae.

Slugs within this genus create and use love darts.

Species

Species within the genus Parmacella include:^{[1] [2]}

• Cryptella canariensis Webb & Berthelot, 1833 / Parmacella canariensis (Webb & Berthelot, 1833)
• Parmacella deshayesi Moquin-Tandon, 1848
• Parmacella festae Gambetta, 1925
• Parmacella gervaisii Moquin-Tandon, 1850 - extinct^[3]
• Parmacella ibera Eichwald, 1841^[4]
• Parmacella olivieri Cuvier, 1804 - type species
• Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985
• Parmacella valenciennii Webb & Van Beneden, 1836

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604050437/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=275219 Parmacella
2. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=2576 Species in genus Parmacella
3. Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. . PDF.
4. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.