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Limacinae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Limacoidea

Rank
  
Subfamily

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

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Similar
  
Limax dacampi, Limax ecarinatus, Malacolimax, Lehmannia melitensis, Lehmannia

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)

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Limacinae include:

  • Limax Linnaeus, 1758 - 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, classify genus Bielzia within separate family Limacopsidae.
  • Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926
  • Caucasolimax Likharev et Wiktor, 1980
  • Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883
  • Gigantomilax csikii Soós, 1924
  • Gigantomilax lederi (Boettger, 1883)
  • Gigantomilax majoricensis (Heynemann, 1863)
  • Lehmannia Heynemann, 1862
  • Limacopsis Simroth, 1888
  • Malacolimax Malm, 1868
  • Turcomilax Simroth, 1901

    • References

    Limacinae Wikipedia
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