Plectotropis vulgivaga

Plectotropis vulgivaga is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

Snails in this species create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The species can host sporocysts of Dicrocoelium

• Plectotropis vulgivaga lanx <small>(Pilsbry, 1902)</small>
• Plectotropis vulgivaga vulgivaga <small>(Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)</small>

Distribution

This species of snail is endemic to Japan.

References

• Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.

External links

• Schmacker, B. & Boettger, O. (1890). Neue Materialien zur Charakteristik und geographischen Verbreitung chinesischer und japanischer Binnenmollusken I. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 22 (1/2): 1-30, pl. 1; 22 (7/8): 113-137, pl. 2
• Images at: https://web.archive.org/web/20100418023749/http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data31/r003070.html
• Taxonomy at: https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/89999