Limacinae

Limacinae

Limacinae

Subfamily of gastropods

Limacinae are a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae.

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Taxonomy

The subfamily Limacinae is recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)[3]

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Limacinae include:

  • Limax Linnaeus, 1758[4] - type genus of the family Limacidae
  • 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

  1. [1]
    Biolib
  2. [2]
    (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".
  3. [3]
    (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.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    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.
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