Limax cinereoniger
| Limax cinereoniger | |
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| 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 |
| Species: | L. cinereoniger |
| Binomial name | |
| Limax cinereoniger Wolf, 1803 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Limax alpinus Férussac, 1822 | |
Limax cinereoniger is a large species of air-breathing land slug in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. This is the largest land slug species in the world.[2]
Distribution
This slug is native to Europe. It is recorded in most of Europe, including Bulgaria, Czech Republic (where it is of least concern),[3] Italy, Netherlands,[4] Slovakia, Great Britain, Ireland, Finland, and Ukraine,[5] and only missing in Scandinavia and in the extreme South.
pr - penial retractor muscle;
pe - penis;
at - atrium;
bc - bursa copulatrix;
ov - oviduct.
Description
With a maximum length exceeding 20 centimeters, this species is the largest land slug.[2]
Habitat
This species lives in woodlands and occasionally parks.
Parasites
Parasites of Limax cinereoniger include nematodes of genus Elaphostrongylus[6] and Agfa flexilis.[7]
References
- ↑ Nitz, B., et al. (2009). Towards a new standard in slug species descriptions: the case of Limax sarnensis Heim & Nitz n. sp. (Pulmonata: Limacidae) from the Western Central Alps. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75(3): 279-294. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp030.
- 1 2 Limacidae. The Living World of Molluscs.
- ↑ Juřičková, L., et al. 2001. Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
- ↑ Limax. Stichting ANEMOON.
- ↑ Balashov, I. & N. Gural-Sverlova. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41(1): 91-109.
- ↑ Olsson I., et al. (1993). Gastropod hosts of Elaphostrongylus spp. (Protostrongylidae, Nematoda). Rangifer 13(1): 53-55.
- ↑ Morand S. & Hommay G. (1990). "Redescription de Agfa flexilis (Nematoda: Agfidae) parasite de I’appareil genital de Limax cinereoniger (Gastropoda: Limacidae)". Systematic Parasitology 15(2): 127–132. doi:10.1007/bf00009990.
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