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Limax maximus (literally, "biggest slug"), known by the common names great grey slug and leopard slug, is a species of slug in the family Limacidae, the keeled slugs. [4] It is among the largest keeled slugs, Limax cinereoniger being the largest. Limax maximus is the type species of the genus Limax. The adult slug measures 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 ...
Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae. Limax cinereoniger. The generic name Limax literally means "slug". Limax dacampi. Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus) and the tawny garden slug (Limacus flavus), are beneficial for the garden. [2]
Limax Linnaeus, 1758 [5] - type genus of the family Limacidae; Limacus Lehmann, 1864; sometimes considered a subgenus of Limax; Bielzia Clessin, 1887 - with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists, [5] classify genus Bielzia within separate family Limacopsidae. [5] Caspilimax P. Hesse ...
Limax maximus Limax cinereoniger Boettgerillidae – terrestrial. Boettgerilla pallens Simroth, 1912 – introduced; Limacidae (keelback slugs) – terrestrial. Limax maximus Linnaeus, 1758; Limax cinereoniger Wolf, 1803; Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758) – introduced; Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851) – introduced; Lehmannia marginata (O ...
The reason is that Nunneley already described a Limax maculatus in 1837; this turned out to be a synonym of Limax maximus, but nevertheless the combination Limax maculatus cannot be re-applied to a species described under the name maculatus at a later date (even though that 1851 description used a different genus, Krynickillus).
Entwined everted penises of a pair of mating hermaphrodite slugs in the species Limax maximus.. The reproductive system of gastropods (slugs and snails) varies greatly from one group to another within this very large and diverse taxonomic class of animals.
Location of Montana. The non-marine mollusks of Montana — a part of the molluscan fauna of the state in the Northwestern United States.The non-marine mollusks of Montana consist of land snails and slugs as well as freshwater snails, freshwater mussels and freshwater clams.
Limacoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The Helixarionoidea were previously placed in this superfamily.