Lehmannia_melitensis

<i>Lehmannia melitensis</i>

Lehmannia melitensis

Species of gastropod

Lehmannia melitensis is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae.

The right side of Lehmannia melitensis showing the pneumostome
The foot of Lehmannia melitensis

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Distribution

The distribution of this species includes Malta and Italy (Sicily, Aeolian Islands, Sardinia, and the Tuscan Archipelago).[2] It also has been found in Tunisia and Algeria.[3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Lessona, M.; Pollonera C. (1882). Monografia dei limacidi italiani. Turin: Ermanno Loescher. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10743.
  2. [2]
    Species summary for Lehmannia melitensis. AnimalBase
  3. [3]
    Abbes, I.; Liberto, F.; Castillejo, J.; Nouira, S. (2010). "A review of slugs and semi-slugs of Tunisia (Testacellidae, Milacidae and Limacidae)". Journal of Conchology. 40: 219–231.
  4. [4]
    Hutchinson, John M.C.; Reise, Heike; Schlitt, Bettina (7 July 2022). "Will the real Limax nyctelius please step forward: Lehmannia, Ambigolimax, or Malacolimax? No, Letourneuxia!". Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology. 151 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/151/019-041.
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