Limax cinereoniger

Limax cinereoniger
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Limax
Species:
L. cinereoniger
Binomial name
Limax cinereoniger
Wolf, 1803
Synonyms[2]

Limax alpinus Férussac, 1822

Limax cinereoniger, the ash-black slug is a large species of air-breathing land slug in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. This is the largest land slug species in the world.[3]

  1. ^ Rowson, B. (2017). "Limax cinereoniger". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T171652A1329435. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T171652A1329435.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Nitz, B., et al. (2009). Towards a new standard in slug species descriptions: the case of Limax sarnensis Heim & Nitz n. sp. (Pulmonata: Limacidae) from the Western Central Alps. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75(3): 279-294. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp030.
  3. ^ Limacidae. The Living World of Molluscs.