Pallifera

Pallifera is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae.

Pallifera
Pallifera fosteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Philomycidae
Genus: Pallifera
E. S. Morse, 1864
Species

See text

Species

Species include:[1]

  • Pallifera costaricensis (Mörch, 1857) [2]
  • Pallifera dorsalis (Binney, 1842) – pale mantleslug
  • Pallifera fosteri – Foster mantleslug
  • Pallifera hemphilli – black mantleslug
  • Pallifera marmorea – marbled mantleslug
  • Pallifera megaphallica – woody mantleslug
  • Pallifera ohioensis – redfoot mantleslug
  • Pallifera pilsbryi – Arizona mantleslug
  • Pallifera ragsdalei – whiteface mantleslug
  • Pallifera secreta – severed mantleslug
  • Pallifera tournescalis – Ouachita mantleslug
  • Pallifera varia – variable mantleslug

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008)[3] (simplified):

 
 
 
 

 Meghimatium 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 Philomycus 

 
 

 Pallifera 

 
 
 

 Megapallifera 

 
 
 

 Arion 

 
 
 
 
 

 Deroceras 

 
 
 

Arion and Deroceras were used as outgroup.[3]

References
  1. Pallifera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  2. Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
  3. Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.
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