Marmorana is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Murellinae of the family Helicidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Marmorana W. Hartmann, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996444 on 2021-06-24
Anatomy Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Taxonomy Marmorana is paraphyletic.Fiorentino V., Salomone N., Manganelli G. & Giusti F. (2010). "Historical biogeography of Tyrrhenian land snails: The Marmorana–Tyrrheniberus radiation (Pulmonata, Helicidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(1): 26-37. .
Species Species within the genus Marmorana include:Taxonomy and species listSpecies in genus Marmorana. AnimalBase, accessed 7 April 2009. 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 Marmorana signata (A. Férussac, 1821)
References
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.