Limacinae

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

Limacinae
A live but partially retracted individual of Limax dacampi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Subfamily: Limacinae
Lamarck, 1801[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Limacopsidae Gerhardt, 1935

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. Biolib
  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. (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. 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. 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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