WoRMS taxon details
Limax Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 154017
AphiaID: 154017
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Pulmonata (Infraclass) > Stylommatophora (Order) > Sigmurethra (Suborder) > Limacoidea (Superfamily) > Limacidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||
| Parent | Limacidae Batsch, 1789 | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Limax crenata Martyn, 1786 accepted as Amphibola crenata (Martyn, 1786) accepted as Amphibola crenata (Gmelin, 1791) Species Limax papillosus Linnaeus, 1761 accepted as Aeolidia papillosa (Linnaeus, 1761) Species Limax tergipes Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775 accepted as Tergipes tergipes (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775) Species Limax tetraquetra Pallas, 1788 accepted as Tochuina tetraquetra (Pallas, 1788) | |||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154017 | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Limax Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154017 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||
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