Limacidae | |
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A live individual of Limax maximus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Limacoidea |
Family: | Limacidae Lamarck, 1801[1] |
Diversity[2][3] | |
12 genera, many species (more than 56 species) |
Limacidae, also known by their common name the keelback slugs, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Limacoidea.