Limax

Limax
Limax maximus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Subfamily: Limacinae
Genus: Limax
Linnaeus, 1758[1]
Species

at least 33, see text

Synonyms
List
    • Chromolimax Pini, 1877
    • Eulimax Moquin-Tandon, 1855
    • Gestroa Pini, 1877
    • Heynemannia Malm, 1868
    • Limacella Brard, 1815
    • Limax (Brachylimax) Falkner & Niederhöfer, 2008· accepted, alternate representation
    • Limax (Eulimax) Moquin-Tandon, 1855
    • † Limax (Heinemannia) Malm, 1868 (junior objective synonym; incorrect subsequent spelling)
    • Limax (Heynemannia) Malm, 1868 (junior objective synonym)
    • Limax (Limax) Linnaeus, 1758· accepted, alternate representation
    • Macroheynemannia Simroth, 1888
    • Opilolimax Pini, 1877
    • Prolimax Simroth, 1906
    • Stabilea Pini, 1877

Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae.

Limax cinereoniger

The generic name Limax literally means "slug".

Limax dacampi

Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus) and the tawny garden slug (Limacus flavus), are beneficial for the garden.[2]

The genus Limax sensu stricto is probably monophyletic.[3]

  1. ^ Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
  2. ^ Woman, Bug (2020-12-06). "London Natural History Society Talk – 'Slimy, Sticky and Unloved – Slugs in London' by Imogen Cavadino". Bug Woman - Adventures in London. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  3. ^ Klee, B. 2006 Towards a phylogeny of Limax (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine The Malacologist. Molluscan Forum 2006.