Lehmannia carpatica
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| Lehmannia carpatica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacinae |
| Genus: | Lehmannia |
| Species: | L. carpatica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lehmannia carpatica Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022[1] | |
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Lehmannia carpatica is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Limacidae.
When Grossu & Lupu (1963)[2] first noted this species, in Romania, its long penis and lack of penial appendage led it to be confused with Ambigolimax waterstoni, which at that time was incorrectly named as Limax nyctelius; the later renamings as Lehmannia nyctelia or Ambigolimax nyctelius remained incorrect. Only in 2022[1] was the confusion recognised, requiring both A. waterstoni and L. carpatica to be formally described as distinct species.[3][4] The same article described a third species, Ambigolimax parvipenis[5] that had also been called Lehmannia nyctelia and confused with the other two; the article further pointed out that the original name Limax nyctelius referred to a species of Letourneuxia.[6]
Lehmannia carpatica had also been misidentified as Mesolimax braunii in an article published in 1898.[7][8]
The adjective carpatica refers to the Carpathian Mountains, along the length of which the species occurs. The type locality is Morskie Oko in the High Tatra Mountains of Poland.[1]
