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Parmarion
Sign in to saveParmarion is a genus of air-breathing land semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. Parmarion is the type genus of the Parmarioninae, which is a synonym of Ostracolethinae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyAriophantidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Ariophantidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, FMNH, UMZC, UF
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Malaysia, [Sarawak; Malaysia]
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Parmarion is a genus of air-breathing land semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariophantidae. Parmarion is the type genus of the Parmarioninae, which is a synonym of Ostracolethinae.
Species of snails within this family make and use love darts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parmarion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.