Limacus
Limacus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae, the short-keeled slugs. [2]
| Limacus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Limacus maculatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limax |
| Subgenus: | Limacus Lehmann, 1864[1] |
| Type species | |
| Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864 | |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Species
Species within this subgenus include:
- † Limacus crassitesta (Reuss, 1868)
- Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758), - synonym Limax flavus (Kaleniczenko 1851), synonym: Limax breckworthianus (Lehmann, 1864) - the type species[3]
- Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851), - synonym: Limax ecarinatus (Boettger, 1881) synonym: Limax pseudoflavus (Evans, 1978) synonym: Limax grossui
- and others
- Species brought into synonymy
- Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864 : synonym of Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- (in German) Lehmann R. 1864. Neue Nacktschnecken aus Australien. Malakozoologische Blätter 11: 145-149. Cassel.
- MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Limacus Lehmann, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818351 on 2019-06-01
- AnimalBase info at: Genus taxon summary for Limacus. AnimalBase, accessed 10 August 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.