Limacinae

Limacinae
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	A live but partially retracted individual of Limax dacampi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra; clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Limacoidea
Family:	Limacidae
Subfamily:	Limacinae ; Lamarck, 1801
Synonyms
	Limacopsidae Gerhardt, 1935;

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Limacinae are a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae.

Taxonomy

The subfamily Limacinae is recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) ^[3]

Genera in the subfamily Limacinae include:

Limax Linnaeus, 1758^[4] - type genus of the family Limacidae
- subgenus Limacus Lehmann, 1864
Bielzia Clessin, 1887 - with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists,^[4] classify genus Bielzia within separate family Limacopsidae.^[4]
Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926^[4]
Caucasolimax Likharev et Wiktor, 1980^[4]
Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883^[4]
- Gigantomilax csikii Soós, 1924
- Gigantomilax lederi (Boettger, 1883)
- Gigantomilax majoricensis (Heynemann, 1863)^[5]
Lehmannia Heynemann, 1862^[4]
Limacopsis Simroth, 1888
Malacolimax Malm, 1868^[4]
Turcomilax Simroth, 1901^[4]

↑ Biolib
↑ (French) Lamarck J.-B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs… Paris, Detreville, VIII: 1-432. Page 62, originally spelled under vernacular name "es Limaciers".
↑ (German) Gerhardt U. (16 July 1935). "Weitere Untersuchungen zur Kopulation der Nacktschnecken". Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 30(2): 297-332. Page 329.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 ^4.7 ^4.8 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
↑ Wiktor A., Quintana J. & Beckmann K.-H. (2007). "Redescription of "Limax majoricensis" (Heynemann 1863) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Limacidae) from the Balearic Islands. pp. 187-197. In: Beckmann K.-H.: Die Land- und Süßwassermollusken der Balearischen Inseln. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 255 pp., ISBN 978-3-939767-05-3.

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