Veronicellidae

Taxobox
name = Veronicellidae

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Laevicaulis alte"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Systellommatophora
familia = Veronicellidae
familia_authority = Gray, 1840
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

The Veronicellidae, common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a taxonomic family of tropical and subtropical air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks.

Description

These mollusks have a posterior located anus, eyes on contractile (not retractile) tentacles, and no lung or pulmonary organ. In these aspects they are anatomically distinct from most other types of terrestrial slugs, which typically belong to the order Stylommatophora, and which have a forward located anus and retractile tentacles.

The closely related members of the family Onchidiidae differ from the Veronicellidae by having a pulmonary sac, or lung. [http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Pulmonata/Systellommatophora.html Systellommatophora at Palaeos] [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=78765 Integrated Taxonomic Information System: Veronicellidae] [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Veronicellidae.html Univ. Michigan Animal Diversity: Veronicellidae]

Genera within the family Veronicellidae

* "Angustipes"
* "Diplosolenodes" Thome, 1976
* "Laevicaulis" Simroth, 1913
* "Leidyula" H. B. Baker, 1925
* "Sarasinula" Grimpe and Hoffmann, 1924
* "Vaginulus"
* "Veronicella" de Blainville, 1817

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