Limacus

Limacus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae, the short-keeled slugs. [2]

Limacus
Limacus maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Limacoidea
Family:	Limacidae
Subfamily:	Limacinae
Genus:	Limax
Subgenus:	Limacus Lehmann, 1864[1]
Type species
Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864
Synonyms
Limax (Limacus) Lehmann, 1864 Plepticolimax Malm, 1868 Simrothia Clessin, 1884

Species

Species within this subgenus include:

• † Limacus crassitesta (Reuss, 1868)
• Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758), - synonym Limax flavus (Kaleniczenko 1851), synonym: Limax breckworthianus (Lehmann, 1864) - the type species[3]
• Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851), - synonym: Limax ecarinatus (Boettger, 1881) synonym: Limax pseudoflavus (Evans, 1978) synonym: Limax grossui
• and others

Species brought into synonymy

• Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864 : synonym of Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

1. (in German) Lehmann R. 1864. Neue Nacktschnecken aus Australien. Malakozoologische Blätter 11: 145-149. Cassel.
2. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Limacus Lehmann, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818351 on 2019-06-01
3. AnimalBase info at: Genus taxon summary for Limacus. AnimalBase, accessed 10 August 2009.