Limax
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Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae.
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Limax | |
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Limax maximus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Limacidae |
Subfamily: | Limacinae |
Genus: | Limax Linnaeus, 1758[1] |
Species | |
at least 33, see text | |
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The generic name Limax literally means "slug".
Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus) and the tawny garden slug (Limacus flavus), are beneficial for the garden. [2]
The genus Limax sensu stricto is probably monophyletic.[3]