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Limacidae, or the keelback slugs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
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Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies from 21 to 25 and also from 31 to 35 (according to the values in this table).1
Genera
Subfamiles and genera within the family Limacidae include:
- subfamily Limacinae Lamarck, 1801
- Lehmannia Heynemann, 1863 - for example Lehmannia marginata
- Limacus Lehmann, 1864 - for example Limacus flavus
- Limax Linnaeus, 1758 - for example Limax cinereoniger, Limax maximus
- Malacolimax Malm, 1868 - for example Malacolimax tenellus
- subfamily Limacopsinae Gerhardt, 1935
- Bielzia Clessin, 1887 - Bielzia coerulans
Ecology
- Parasites: Sciomyzidae
References
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
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