Limax luctuosus

Limax luctuosus
Juvenile of Limax cf. luctuosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Limax
Species:
L. luctuosus
Binomial name
Limax luctuosus

Limax luctuosus is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. So far, it has not been adequately investigated and is therefore an unsafe species. [1]

Taxonomy

The taxon was first described by Alfred Moquin-Tandon in 1855 as a var. of Limax maximus.[2] It could be a form of Limax cinereoniger or an endemic species. [1]

Distribution

Limax luctuosus was described from France, but it should also be present in the western Alps.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Animal Base
  2. ^ Moquin-Tandon, A. 1855 Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés. Tome second. - pp. 1-646, atlas 1-92, Pl. I-LIV [= 1-54]. Paris. (Baillière).
  3. ^ Natura mediterraneo
  4. ^ WMSDB – Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base