Belocaulus

Belocaulus
mating of Belocaulus angustipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Veronicelloidea
Family: Veronicellidae
Genus: Belocaulus
Hoffmann, 1925[1]
Diversity
2 species

Belocaulus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

Species

  • Belocaulus angustipes (Heynemann, 1885)[2]
  • Belocaulus willibaldoi Ohlweiler & Gomes, 2009[2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Portuguese) Thomé J. W. (1975) "Os gêneros da família Veronicellidae nas Américas (Mollusca; Gastropoda)". Iheringia, Porto Alegre, Série Zoologia (48): 3-56. page 13.
  2. 1 2 "Belocaulus Hoffmann, 1925". Terrestrial Slugs Web, accessed 28 May 2014


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