Ariolimacidae

Ariolimacidae

A live individual of Ariolimax columbianus in the wild, at Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Arionoidea
Family:	Ariolimacidae Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898^[1]
Genera
See text

Ariolimacidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Ariolimacidae consists of the two subfamilies:

Ariolimacinae Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
Zacoleinae Webb, 1959^[2]

Genera in the family Ariolimacidae include:

Ariolimacinae

Ariolimax Mörch, 1859 - banana slug - the type genus of the family Ariolimacidae

Zacoleinae

Zacoleus Pilsbry, 1903 - the type genus of the subfamily Zacoleinae

References

^ Pilsbry H. A. & Vanatta (13 June) 1898. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 50. Ariolimacidae is on the page 227.
^ Webb. (14 February) 1959. Gastropodia, 1(3):22.