Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Succineoidea Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Succineidae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Hyalimax maillardi, Succineidae, Succinea, Stylommatophora | ||
Hyalimax is a genus of small, air-breathing, land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate.
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Species
Species in the genus Hyalimax include (old source from 1892 was used, some of these names may be synonyms):
Description
Tryon (1884) wrote about the genus Hyalimax (while mentioning Hyalimax pellucidus as an example) like this:
"Animal limaciform, swollen at centre, blunt before, and tapering behind; tentacles simple; mantle large, central, concealing all but a small opening; an internal shell-plate; no longitudinal furrows above the margin of the foot, and no caudal mucous pit; no distinct locomotive disk; external respiratory and anal orifices on the central right margin of the mantle; orifice of combined genital system on right side of head, halfway between eye-peduncle and mantle."
"Shell large, rudimentary, thin, oval, unguiform, non-spiral. Jaw smooth with blunt median projection and accessory quadrate plate. Lingual membrane with tricuspid central teeth, multifid laterals, and quadrate marginals."