Limacus maculatus
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| Plate accompanying the original description by Boettger, 1881 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limax |
| Subgenus: | Limacus |
| Species: | L. maculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)
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Krynickillus maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851 | |
Limacus maculatus , the green cellar slug or Irish yellow slug, is a species of slug native to the Caucasus and Black Sea coast.[1] It has also been introduced to a number of northern European countries and Russia.[2][3]
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.
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.[4]
- Ireland
- Ukraine[5]
- and other areas
See also[]
- Limax maximus, also known as Limax maculatus (Nunneley, 1837).
References[]
- ^ Wiktor, A; Norris, A (1982). "The synonymy of Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko 1851) with notes on its European distribution". Journal of Conchology. 31: 75–77.
- ^ Rowson, B (2014). Slugs of Britain & Ireland : identification, understanding and control. Telford Cardiff: FSC Publications National Museum of Wales. ISBN 978-1-908819-13-0. OCLC 889104870.
- ^ "Molluscabase - Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)". www.molluscabase.org.
- ^ 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.
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
- Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates
External links[]
- Limax ecarinatus at Animalbase
- images
- Limacidae
- Gastropods described in 1851
- Sigmurethra stubs