Chilostoma cingulatum (Studer 1820)

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

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)

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  Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense

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  Chilostoma cingulatum baldense

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  Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum

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  Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis

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  Chilostoma cingulatum preslii

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  Chilostoma cingulatum preslii
  (Flat form)

Habitat

The species is found only on limestone rocks.

Life cycle

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.

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