Limacus
Genus of molluscs
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Limacus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae, the short-keeled slugs.[2]
| Limacus | |
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| Limacus maculatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limacus Lehmann, 1864[1] |
| Type species | |
| Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Species
Species within this subgenus include:
- † Limacus crassitesta (Reuss, 1868)
- Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species;[3] synonyms = Limax flavus Linnaeus, 1758
- Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851); synonyms = Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881, Limax pseudoflavus Evans, 1978, Limax grossui Lupu, 1970
- Species brought into synonymy
- Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864: synonym of Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)