Letourneuxia

Letourneuxia is a genus of large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Letourneuxia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Arionidae
Genus: Letourneuxia
Bourguignat, 1866[1]
Type species
Letourneuxia numidica
Bourguignat, 1866

Species

This genus is monotypic, containing the single species

Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 is now considered a junior synonym of L. nyctelia.[2][3] Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse 1884) is considered either as another synonym of L. nyctelia[4] or as a species in the genus Geomalacus.[5]

References
  1. Bourguignat J. R. 1863-1868. Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu connus. Première centurie (Mars 1863 à Décembre 1868). pp. [1-2], 1-324, Pl. 1-4, V-XLV [= 5-45]. Paris. (Savy). page 202.
  2. Hutchinson, John M.C.; Reise, Heike; Schlitt, Bettina (30 June 2022). "Will the real Limax nyctelius please step forward: Lehmannia, Ambigolimax, or Malacolimax? No, Letourneuxia!". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 151 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/151/019-041.
  3. "Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)". Molluscabase. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. Wiktor, A. (1983). "Some data on slugs of Morocco and Algeria with description of a new Deroceras species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Malakologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden. 8: 155–165.
  5. Castillejo, J. (1996). "Deroceras ponsonbyi (Hesse, 1884) and Geomalacus moreleti (Hesse, 1884) in Gibraltar (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Agriolimacidae, Arionidae)". Revista Real Academia Galega de Ciencias. 15: 23–34.

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