| Rathouisiidae | |
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| Atopos slug attacking Plectostoma concinnum by shell-drilling. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Systellommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Veronicelloidea |
| Family: | Rathouisiidae Heude, 1885[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Rathouisiadae (original spelling) | |
Rathouisiidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Veronicelloidea, the leatherleaf slugs and their allies.
This family has no subfamilies according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
The scientific name Rathouisiidae is based on the name of the type genus, Rathouisia which in turn was named in honor of the French Jesuit Père Charles Rathouis (1834–1890), who made scientific drawings for Pierre Marie Heude.[2]
- ^ Heude P. M. (1885). Mémoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'empire chinois par des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus. Notes sur les Mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu. Mision Catholique, Chang-Hai. 3: 89–132, plates 22-32. page 99.
- ^ Heude P. M. (1883). "Note sur un Limacien nouveau de Chine". Journal de Conchyliologie 31: 394–395.