Letourneuxia Explained

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

Species

This genus is monotypic, containing the single species

Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 is now considered a junior synonym of L. nyctelia.[1] [2] Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse 1884) is considered either as another synonym of L. nyctelia[3] or as a species in the genus Geomalacus.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Hutchinson . John M.C. . Reise . Heike . Schlitt . Bettina . Will the real Limax nyctelius please step forward: Lehmannia, Ambigolimax, or Malacolimax? No, Letourneuxia! . Archiv für Molluskenkunde . 30 June 2022 . 151 . 1 . 19–41 . 10.1127/arch.moll/151/019-041.
  2. Web site: Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861) . Molluscabase . 12 July 2022.
  3. Wiktor . A. . Some data on slugs of Morocco and Algeria with description of a new Deroceras species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) . Malakologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden . 1983 . 8 . 155–165.
  4. Castillejo . J. . Deroceras ponsonbyi (Hesse, 1884) and Geomalacus moreleti (Hesse, 1884) in Gibraltar (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Agriolimacidae, Arionidae) . Revista Real Academia Galega de Ciencias . 1996 . 15 . 23–34.

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