Limacinae are a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae.
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]
-
Lehmannia Heynemann, 1862[4]
-
Limacopsis Simroth, 1888
-
Malacolimax Malm, 1868[4]
-
Turcomilax Simroth, 1901[4]
References
-
^ Biolib
-
^ (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".
-
^ (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.
-
^ a b c d e f g h i 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.
-
^ 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.
