Limax

Limax
Limax maximus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Subfamily: Limacinae
Genus: Limax
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

at least 33, see text

Synonyms
List
    • Chromolimax Pini, 1877
    • Eulimax Moquin-Tandon, 1855
    • Gestroa Pini, 1877
    • Heynemannia Malm, 1868
    • Limacella Brard, 1815
    • Limax (Brachylimax) Falkner & Niederhöfer, 2008· accepted, alternate representation
    • Limax (Eulimax) Moquin-Tandon, 1855
    • † Limax (Heinemannia) Malm, 1868 (junior objective synonym; incorrect subsequent spelling)
    • Limax (Heynemannia) Malm, 1868 (junior objective synonym)
    • Limax (Limax) Linnaeus, 1758· accepted, alternate representation
    • Macroheynemannia Simroth, 1888
    • Opilolimax Pini, 1877
    • Prolimax Simroth, 1906
    • Stabilea Pini, 1877

Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae.

The generic name Limax literally means "slug".

Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus), are beneficial for the garden.

The genus Limax sensu stricto is probably monophyletic.

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