Marmorana

Marmorana is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Murellinae of the family Helicidae.^[2]

Marmorana
Shell of Marmorana muralis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Murellinae
Genus:	Marmorana W. Hartmann, 1844[1]
Type species
Helix serpentina A. Férussac, 1821
Synonyms[2]
Helix (Marmorana) W. Hartmann, 1844 Marmorana (Ambigua) Westerlund, 1903· accepted, alternate representation Marmorana (Marmorana) W. Hartmann, 1844· accepted, alternate representation Marmorana (Murella) L. Pfeiffer, 1877· accepted, alternate representation Murella L. Pfeiffer, 1877 Murella (Opica) Kobelt, 1904 Opica Kobelt, 1904

Anatomy

Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

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  Love dart of Marmorana serpentina
• 
  Love dart of Marmorana scabriuscula

Taxonomy

Marmorana is paraphyletic.^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Marmorana include:^[4][5]

• Marmorana fuscolabiata (Rossmässler, 1842)
• Marmorana globularis (Philippi, 1836)
• † Marmorana majoris (De Stefani, 1880)
• Marmorana melitensis (A. Férussac, 1821)
• Marmorana muralis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Marmorana nebrodensis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Marmorana platychela (Menke, 1830)
• † Marmorana sabina (Tuccimei, 1889)
• Marmorana saxetana (Paulucci, 1886)
• Marmorana scabriuscula (Deshayes, 1832)
• Marmorana serpentina (A. Férussac, 1821) - type species
• Marmorana sicana ^{[citation needed]}
• Marmorana signata (A. Férussac, 1821)