Pallifera

Pallifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Philomycidae
Genus: Pallifera
E. S. Morse, 1864
Species

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Pallifera is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae.

Species

Species include:[1]

  • Pallifera dorsalis (Binney, 1842) – pale mantleslug
  • Pallifera fosteri – Foster mantleslug
  • Pallifera hemphilli – black mantleslug
  • Pallifera marmorea – marbled mantleslug
  • Pallifera megaphallica – woody mantleslug
  • Pallifera ohioensis – redfoot mantleslug
  • Pallifera pilsbryi – Arizona mantleslug
  • Pallifera ragsdalei – whiteface mantleslug
  • Pallifera secreta – severed mantleslug
  • Pallifera tournescalis – Ouachita mantleslug
  • Pallifera varia – variable mantleslug

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008)[2] (simplified):

 

 

 

 

 Meghimatium 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 Philomycus 

 
 

 Pallifera 

 
 
 

 Megapallifera 

 
 
 

 Arion 

 
 
 
 
 

 Deroceras 

 
 
 

Arion and Deroceras were used as outgroup.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Pallifera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  2. 1 2 Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.


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