Selenochlamys

Selenochlamys is a genus of predatory air-breathing land slugs, shell-less pulmonate gastropod molluscs. When described it was supposed to be in the family Trigonochlamydidae, but DNA evidence has shown it to be in the Oxychilidae instead.[2]

Selenochlamys
A live individual of Selenochlamys ysbryda, head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oxychilidae
Genus: Selenochlamys
Boettger, 1883[1]
Type species
Selenochlamys pallida
Boettger, 1883

Species

Species within the genus Selenochlamys include:[3]

References
  1. (in German) Boettger O. (1883). "Siebentes Verzeichnis von Mollusken der Kaukasusländer, nach Sendungen des Hrn. Hans Leder, z. Z. in Helenendorf bei Elisabetpol (Transkaukasien)". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 10: 135-198, Taf. 4-7. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. Neiber, Marco T.; Walther, Frank; Hausdorf, Bernhard (October 2020). "Phylogenetic relationships of ghost slugs (Selenochlamys) and overlooked instances of limacization in Western Palaearctic Limacoidei (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 151: 106897. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106897.
  3. Species in genus Selenochlamys. AnimalBase, accessed 21 April 2009.
  4. Rowson B. & Symondson O. C. (2008) "Selenochlamys ysbryda sp. nov. from Wales, UK: a Testacella-like slug new to western Europe (Stylommatophora: Trigonochlamydidae)". Journal of Conchology 39(5): 537-552. abstract.
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