Limacidae

Taxobox
name = Limacidae

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image_caption = "Limax maximus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Limacidae

Limacidae, or the keelback slugs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

ubfamiles and genera within the family Limacidae

* subfamily Limacinae Lamarck, 1801
** "Lehmannia" Heynemann, 1863 - for example "Lehmannia marginata"
** "Limacus" Lehmann, 1864 - for example "Limacus flavus"
** "Limax" Linnaeus, 1758 - for example "Limax cinereoniger", "Limax maximus"
** "Malacolimax" Malm, 1868 - for example "Malacolimax tenellus"

* subfamily Limacopsinae Gerhardt, 1935
** "Bielzia" Clessin, 1887 - "Bielzia coerulans"

Ecology

* Parasites: Sciomyzidae

References