Limacus

Limacus

Limax flavus
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]

Limacus is a subgenus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

Limacus is considered as a subgenus of the genus Limax.^[2]

Species

Species within this subgenus include:

Limax flavus - synonym Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758) synonym: Limax breckworthianus (Lehmann, 1864) - the type species^[2]
Limax ecarinatus - synonym: Limacus maculatus. If the subgenus Limacus is elevated to the generic level, then the name Limacus maculatus is valid.
and others

References

^ (German) Lehmann R. 1864. Neue Nacktschnecken aus Australien. Malakozoologische Blätter 11: 145-149. Cassel.
^ ^a ^b AnimalBase info at: Genus taxon summary for Limacus. AnimalBase, accessed 10 August 2009.