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| Limacinae | |
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| A live but partially contracted individual of Limax dacampi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacinae Batsch, 1789[1][2] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 11 genera | |
Limacinae is a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae. The only other subfamily in this family is the Eumilacinae.
Genera
[edit]Currently recognised genera in the Limacinae are:
- Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887;[3] formerly considered a subgenus of Lehmannia[4]
- Bielzia Clessin, 1887 – with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,[5] have classified Bielzia within its own family Bielzidae (= Limacopsidae) or subfamily Bielzinae, but a molecular phylogeny has subsequently placed it within Limacinae.[4]
- Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926[5]
- Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883[5]
- Lehmannia Heynemann, 1863;[6] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limacus Lehmann, 1864; sometimes considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limax Linnaeus, 1758[5] – type genus of Limacidae; c. half the recognised species in the family
- Malacolimax Malm, 1868;[5] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Svanetia Hesse, 1926[7]
- Turcomilax Simroth, 1902[6]
- Weltersia Giusti et al. 2021 – with the only species W. obscura Giusti et al. 2021[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Batsch, A.J.G.C. (1789). Versuch einer Anleitung, zur Kenntniß und Geschichte der Thiere und Mineralien, für akademische Vorlesungen entworfen, und mit den nöthigsten Abbildungen versehen. Vol. 2. Besondre Geschichte der Insekten, Gewürme und Mineralien. Jena: Akademische Buchhandlung.
- 1 2 ((MolluscaBase Eds). "Limacinae Batsch, 1789". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute.
- ↑ MolluscaBase Eds. "Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- 1 2 Hutchinson, JMC; Schlitt, B; Reise, H (2026). "Ambigolimax, Lehmannia and other limacid slugs (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora); what their DNA tells us about phylogeny, taxonomy and phylogeography". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 92 (1) eyaf031. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyaf031.
- 1 2 3 4 5 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.
- 1 2 MolluscaBase Eds. "Limacidae Batsch, 1789". MolluscaBase. Flemish Marine Institute. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ↑ MolluscaBase Eds. "Svanetia P. Hesse, 1926". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute.
- ↑ Giusti, F.; Lesicki, A.; Benocci, A.; Pieńkowska, J.R.; Manganelli, G. (2021). "Weltersia obscura , a new slug from the island of Montecristo (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy): a hitherto undiscovered endemic or a recent alien? (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Limacidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 19 (7): 648–664. doi:10.1080/14772000.2021.1908442.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limacidae.
- Slugs of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site