Chilostoma cingulatum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

Chilostoma cingulatum
Chilostoma cingulatum baldense (Rossmässler, 1839)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Chilostoma
Species:
C. cingulatum
Binomial name
Chilostoma cingulatum
(Studer, 1820)[1]
Synonyms
  • Chilostoma (Cingulifera) cingulatum (S. Studer, 1820)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Glischrus cingulata Studer, 1820 (original combination)
  • Helix (Glischrus) cingulata Studer, 1820
Subspecies
  • Chilostoma cingulatum adamii (Pini, 1876)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum alzonai K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
  • Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense (De Betta, 1852)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum anconae (Gentiluomo, 1868)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum appelii (Kobelt, 1876)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum asperulum (Ehrmann, 1910)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum baldense (Rossmässler, 1839)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum bizona (Rossmässler, 1842)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum boccavallense K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
  • Chilostoma cingulatum carrarense (Strobel, 1852)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum cingulatum (S. Studer, 1820)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidescens (Del Prete, 1879)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidissimum (Paulucci, 1881)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidosum (Pollonera, 1890)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum gobanzi (Frauenfeld, 1867)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum hermesianum (Pini, 1874)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum infernale (P. Hesse, 1931)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum insubricum (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum medoacense (Adami, 1886)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum montanum (Paulucci, 1881)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis (Costa, 1836)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum nicolisianum (Adami, 1886)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum peregrini Falkner, 1998
  • Chilostoma cingulatum philippii (Kobelt, 1905)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum preslii (Rossmässler, 1836)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum sentinense (Piersanti, 1833)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum transiens (Adami, 1886)

Habitat

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The species is found only on limestone rocks.

Life cycle

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The scanning electron microscope images show (above) the lateral view of the love dart, scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 μm.

The diameter of the egg of this species is 3.3 mm.[2]

These snails create and use love darts during mating.

References

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  1. ^ Studer S. 1820. Kurzes Verzeichniss der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien. Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 3 (11): 83-90, 91-94. Bern.
  2. ^ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
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