Meghimatium

Meghimatium
Meghimatium
Meghimatium fruhstorferi
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: Meghimatium
Hasselt, 1823[1]

Meghimatium is a genus of medium to large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionoidea, the roundback slugs.

Species

Species within the genus Meghimatium include:

  • Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008 - from Taiwan[2]
  • Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) - from Taiwan[2]
  • Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901) - from Taiwan[2]
  • Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873) - from Taiwan[2]
  • Meghimatium rugosum (Chen & Gao, 1982) - from Taiwan[2]
  • Meghimatium striatum Hasselt, 1824 - from Java[2]
  • Meghimatium uniforme Laidlaw, 1937 - from North Borneo[2]

References

  1. ^ Hasselt J. C. van (1823). Alg. Konst. Letter-Bode: 232; (1824). Bull. des Sci. Nat. 3: 82.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). "A New Meghimatium Slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan". Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.

Further reading

  • Tsai C. L., Lin H. H. & Wu S. K. (2005). "Comparison of four philomycid slugs (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Philomycidae) of Taiwan". Endem. Spec. Res. 7: 41-49. PDF.
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