Limacinae
Subfamily of gastropods
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Limacinae is a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae. The only other subfamily in this family is the Eumilacinae.
| Limacinae | |
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| A live but partially contracted individual of Limax dacampi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacinae Batsch, 1789[1][2] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 11 genera | |
Genera
Currently recognised genera in the Limacinae are:
- Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887;[3] formerly considered a subgenus of Lehmannia[4]
- Bielzia Clessin, 1887 – with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,[5] have classified Bielzia within its own family Bielzidae (= Limacopsidae) or subfamily Bielzinae, but a molecular phylogeny has subsequently placed it within Limacinae.[4]
- Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926[5]
- Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883[5]
- Lehmannia Heynemann, 1863;[6] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limacus Lehmann, 1864; sometimes considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limax Linnaeus, 1758[5] – type genus of Limacidae; c. half the recognised species in the family
- Malacolimax Malm, 1868;[5] formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Svanetia Hesse, 1926[7]
- Turcomilax Simroth, 1902[6]
- Weltersia Giusti et al. 2021 – with the only species W. obscura Giusti et al. 2021[8]
