Leptaxis nivosa

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| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.400665 - Leptaxis (Katostoma) nivosa phlebophora (Lowe, 1831) - Hygromiidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

| image_caption = Leptaxis (Katostoma) nivosa shells

| genus = Leptaxis

| species = nivosa

| authority = Lowe, 1831{{cite web|url=http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=3098|title=AnimalBase - Leptaxis erubescens|publisher=AnimalBase|accessdate=2008-10-11}}

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Leptaxis nivosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. It is endemic to Madeira.{{cite web |title=Leptaxis nivosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6PFMZ |publisher=Catalogue of Life |access-date=23 September 2021}}

Anatomy

These snails create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.{{Cite journal |last=Koene |first=Joris M. |last2=Muratov |first2=Igor V. |date=2004 |title=Revision of the reproductive morphology of three Leptaxis species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hygromiidae) and its implication on dart evolution |journal=Malacologia |volume=46 |issue=1}}

References

Taxonomy at: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120314013221/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/L/Leptaxis_nivosa/]
Images at: [http://www.ne.jp/asahi/dexter/sinister/gallery/species/LepKatNiv.html]

nivosa

Category:Endemic fauna of Madeira

Category:Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe

Category:Gastropods described in 1831