Limacus maculatus

Limacus maculatus , the green cellar slug or Irish yellow slug, is a species of slug native to the Caucasus and Black Sea coast.[1] It has also been introduced to a number of northern European countries and Russia.[2][3]

Limacus maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Pulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Limacoidea
Family:
Limacidae
Subfamily:
Limacinae
Genus:
Limax
Subgenus:
Limacus
Species:
L. maculatus
Binomial name
Limacus maculatus
(Kaleniczenko, 1851)
Synonyms
  • Limax ecarinatus
  • Limax pseudoflavus
  • Limax grossui

Limax ecarinatus

Limax ecarinatus
Plate accompanying the original description by Boettger, 1881
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
Species:
L. ecarinatus
Binomial name
Limax ecarinatus
Boettger, 1881
Synonyms

Krynickillus maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851
Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)
Limax grossui Lupu, 1970
Limax pseudoflavus Evans, 1978

Limax ecarinatus (also known as Limacus maculatus when the subgenus Limacus is elevated to the generic level), is a large species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

This species is synanthropic. It is most likely to be confused with Limax flavus, which it somewhat resembles.

Distribution

This species occurs in: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and western Russia. It has spread to

See also

References
  1. Wiktor, A; Norris, A (1982). "The synonymy of Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko 1851) with notes on its European distribution". Journal of Conchology. 31: 75–77.
  2. Rowson, B (2014). Slugs of Britain & Ireland : identification, understanding and control. Telford Cardiff: FSC Publications National Museum of Wales. ISBN 978-1-908819-13-0. OCLC 889104870.
  3. "Molluscabase - Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)". www.molluscabase.org.
  4. Whitehead P.F. 2007. Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851) (Mollusca, Limacidae) New to Worcestershire. Last change: 8 October 2007.
  5. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
  • Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates


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