Letourneuxia
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| Letourneuxia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Arionidae |
| Genus: | Letourneuxia Bourguignat, 1866[1] |
| Type species | |
| Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 | |
Letourneuxia is a genus of large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.
This genus is monotypic, containing the single species
- Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)
Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 is now considered a junior synonym of L. nyctelia.[2][3] Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse 1884) is considered either as another synonym of L. nyctelia[4] or as a species in the genus Geomalacus.[5]