Parmacella

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

Parmacella
Live individual of Parmacella valenciennii, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Parmacellidae
Genus:	Parmacella Cuvier, 1804[1]

Slugs within this genus create and use love darts.

Species

Species within the genus Parmacella include:[2][3]

• 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[4]
• Parmacella ibera Eichwald, 1841[5]
• Parmacella olivieri Cuvier, 1804 - type species
• Parmacella tenerifensis Alonso, Ibanez & Diaz, 1985
• Parmacella valenciennii Webb & Van Beneden, 1836

References

1. (in French) Cuvier G. (1804). "Mémoire sur la dolabelle, sur la testacelle et sur un nouveau genre de mollusques à coquille cachée, nommée parmacelle". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 5(30): 435-444, Plate 29, figure 12-15. Paris.
2. Parmacella. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.
3. Species in genus Parmacella. AnimalBase, accessed 19 November 2009.
4. 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. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
5. 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.