Limax ecarinatus
Limax ecarinatus (also known as Limacus maculatus when the subgenus Limacus is elevated to the generic level), is a large species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Species: | L. ecarinatus |
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| Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881 | |
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Krynickillus maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851 | |
This species is synanthropic. It is most likely to be confused with Limax flavus, which it somewhat resembles.
Distribution
This species occurs in: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and western Russia. It has spread to
- Great Britain, for example in Worcestershire, England.[1]
- Ireland
- Ukraine[2]
- and other areas
See also
Limax maculatus Nunneley, 1837, which is a synonym for Limax maximus.
References
- Whitehead P.F. 2007. Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851) (Mollusca, Limacidae) New to Worcestershire. Last change: 8 October 2007.
- Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
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