Leptaxis erubescens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Leptaxis |
| Species: | L. erubescens
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Anatomy
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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.
References
edit- ^ "AnimalBase - Leptaxis erubescens". AnimalBase. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
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