Biology:Limacinae

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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

Currently recognised genera in the Limacinae are:

  • Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887;[1] formerly considered a subgenus of Lehmannia[2]
  • Bielzia Clessin, 1887 – with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,[3] have classified Bielzia within its own family Bielzidae (= Limacopsidae) or subfamily Bielzinae, but a molecular phylogeny has subsequently placed it within Limacinae.[2]
  • Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926[3]
  • Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883[3]
  • Lehmannia Heynemann, 1863;[4] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
  • Limacus Lehmann, 1864; sometimes considered a subgenus of Limax
  • Limax Linnaeus, 1758[3] – type genus of Limacidae; c. half the recognised species in the family
  • Malacolimax Malm, 1868;[3] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
  • Svanetia Hesse, 1926[5]
  • Turcomilax Simroth, 1902[4]
  • Weltersia Giusti et al. 2021 – with the only species W. obscura Giusti et al. 2021[6]

References

  1. ↑ ((MolluscaBase Eds)). "Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819989. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). doi:10.1093/mollus/eyaf031. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Ruthenica. http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Continental_Russian_molluscs_ver2-3.pdf. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 ((MolluscaBase Eds)). "Limacidae Batsch, 1789". Flemish Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154015. 
  5. ↑ ((MolluscaBase Eds)). "Svanetia P. Hesse, 1926". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996577. 
  6. ↑ 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. 

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