Limacinae
| Limacinae | |
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| A live but partially retracted individual of Limax dacampi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacinae Lamarck, 1801[1][2] |
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Limacinae are a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae.
Taxonomy[edit]
The subfamily Limacinae is recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)[3]
Genera[edit]
Genera in the subfamily Limacinae include:
- Limax Linnaeus, 1758[4] - type genus of the family Limacidae
- subgenus Limacus Lehmann, 1864
- Bielzia Clessin, 1887 - with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,[4] classify genus Bielzia within separate family Limacopsidae.[4]
- Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926[4]
- Caucasolimax Likharev et Wiktor, 1980[4]
- Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883[4]
- Gigantomilax csikii Soós, 1924
- Gigantomilax lederi (Boettger, 1883)
- Gigantomilax majoricensis (Heynemann, 1863)[5]
- Lehmannia Heynemann, 1862[4]
- Limacopsis Simroth, 1888
- Malacolimax Malm, 1868[4]
- Turcomilax Simroth, 1901[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Biolib
- ^ (in French) Lamarck J.-B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs… Paris, Detreville, VIII: 1-432. Page 62, originally spelled under vernacular name "es Limaciers".
- ^ (in German) Gerhardt U. (16 July 1935). "Weitere Untersuchungen zur Kopulation der Nacktschnecken". Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 30(2): 297-332. Page 329.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
- ^ Wiktor A., Quintana J. & Beckmann K.-H. (2007). "Redescription of "Limax majoricensis" (Heynemann 1863) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Limacidae) from the Balearic Islands. pp. 187-197. In: Beckmann K.-H.: Die Land- und Süßwassermollusken der Balearischen Inseln. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 255 pp., ISBN 978-3-939767-05-3.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limacidae.
- Slugs of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site