Leptaxis erubescens

Taxobox
name = Leptaxis


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Helicidae
genus = "Leptaxis"
species = "L. erubescens"
binomial = "Leptaxis erubescens"
binomial_authority = Lowe, 1831 [cite web|url=http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=3098|title=AnimalBase - Leptaxis erubescens|publisher=AnimalBase|accessdate=2008-10-11]

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

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.

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