Biology:Ambigolimax nyctelius
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Short description: Species of land slug
| Ambigolimax nyctelius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Limacoidea |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Ambigolimax |
| Species: | A. nyctelius
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| Binomial name | |
| Ambigolimax nyctelius (Bourguignat, 1861)
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The name Ambigolimax nyctelius (and similarly Lehmannia nyctelia and Limax nyctelius) has been used to refer to several species of air-breathing land slugs (terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs) in the family Limacidae. An article published in 2022[1] revealed this confusion and furthermore showed that the original description applied to a slug species in a different family. The above names are therefore no longer appropriate and care is need to interpret the meaning of earlier usages.[2]
The following five species were confused:[1]
- Letourneuxia nyctelia (family Arionidae) is the slug originally described. Until 2022 it was mostly known as Letourneuxia numidica;[3]
- Ambigolimax waterstoni is believed native in Algeria but has been reported also from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Elba and some Scottish botanic gardens;[4]
- Ambigolimax parvipenis is a widespread invasive species in the British Isles and California, and has been reported also from Spain, France, Greece and Arizona;[5]
- Lehmannia carpatica occurs mostly at high altitudes along the chain of the Carpathian Mountains and in other ranges further south from Albania to Bulgaria;[6]
- Simroth and Pollonera used the species name nyctelia for a poorly known species from North Africa attributed to the genus Malacolimax.[7][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ "Ambigolimax nyctelius (Bourguignat, 1861)". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002614.
- ↑ "Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1593173.
- ↑ "Ambigolimax waterstoni Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1593176.
- ↑ "Ambigolimax parvipenis Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1593178.
- ↑ "Lehmannia carpatica Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022". Flanders Marine Institute. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1593175.
- ↑ Simroth, H. (1885). "Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der deutschen Nacktschnecken und ihrer europäischen Verwandten". Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 42: 203–366, pls 7–11.
- ↑ Pollonera, C. (1891). "Appunti di malacologia. VIII. Sui Limacidi dell’Algeria". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 6 (100): 1–5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11673426.
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