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Laevicaulis is a taxonomic genus of air-breathing, tropical land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Laevicaulis include:
- Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
- Laevicaulis giganteus (Godwin-Austen, 1895)
- Laevicaulis haroldi (Collinge, 1901) - Purcell's hunter slug
- Laevicaulis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)
- Laevicaulis somalicus (Colosi, 1927)
- Laevicaulis striatus (Simroth, 1896)
- Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)
- Laevicaulis vosseleri (Simroth, 1913)
- Laevicaulis zanzibaricus Forcart, 1953
- Species brought into synonymy
- Laevicaulis comorensis (P. Fischer, 1883): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
- Laevicaulis maillardi (P. Fischer, 1871): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
- Laevicaulis saxicolus (Cockerell, 1893): synonym of Laevicaulis natalensis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848) (junior synonym)
References
- ^ World Register of Marine Species
- Grimpe G. & Hoffmann H. (1924). Diagnosen neuer Athoracophoriden (Gastr., Pulm.). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 58: 171-177
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
- Forcart, L. (1969). Veronicellid land slugs from the New Hebrides, with description of Semperula solemi, new species. Fieldiana: Zoology, 50 (12): 147-156
page(s): 148; note: reversed priority of Laevicaulis (originally described as subgenus) and Eleutherocaulis (originally described as genus)
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