Hemphillia

Hemphillia
Hemphillia glandulosa
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: Arionidae
Genus: Hemphillia
Bland & Binney, 1872[1]

Hemphillia is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

The generic name Hemphillia is in honor of an American malacologist Henry Hemphill (1830–1914).

Species

Species in the genus Hemphillia include[2]:

References

  1. ^ Bland T. & Binney W. G. (1874). "Description of Hemphillia, a new Genus of Terrestrial Mollusks". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 10: 208-211. Plate 9.
  2. ^ COSEWIC (2003). COSEWIC assessment and status report on the dromedary jumping-slug Hemphillia dromedarius in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 21 pp. http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_dromedary_jumping_slug_e.pdf