Hyalimax
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| Hyalimax | |
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| A live animal of Hyalimax maillardi | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Succineidae |
| Genus: | Hyalimax H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 |
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Hyalimax is a genus of small, air-breathing, land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate.
Species in the genus Hyalimax include[2][unreliable source?] (old source from 1892 was used, some of these names may be synonyms):
- Hyalimax andamanicus Godwin-Austen, 1882 - from Port Blair, Andaman Islands.
- Hyalimax maillardi Fischer, 1867
- Hyalimax mauritianus Rang, 1827 - from Mauritius.
- Hyalimax perlucidus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 - from Pouce Mountain, Mauritius.
- Hyalimax pellucidus Quoy & Gaimard[1] (Hyalimax pellucidus seems to be misspelled Hyalimax perlucidus.)[citation needed]
- Hyalimax reinhardi Morch, 1872 - from Pulo Panjang and Sambelong, Nicobar Islands.
- Hyalimax viridis Theobald, 1864 - from Arracan.
