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
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Limacoidea
Family:
Limacidae
Subfamily:
Limacinae
Genus:
Limax
Subgenus:
Limacus

Lehmann, 1864[1]
Type species
Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864
Synonyms
  • Limax (Limacus) Lehmann, 1864
  • Plepticolimax Malm, 1868
  • Simrothia Clessin, 1884

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)
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References
  1. (in German) Lehmann R. 1864. Neue Nacktschnecken aus Australien. Malakozoologische Blätter 11: 145-149. Cassel.
  2. 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
  3. AnimalBase info at: Genus taxon summary for Limacus. AnimalBase, accessed 10 August 2009.


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