Leptaxis erubescens

Leptaxis erubescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Leptaxis
Species:	L. erubescens
Binomial name
Leptaxis erubescens Lowe, 1831

Leptaxis erubescens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, the typical 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.