Lehmannia marginata

Lehmannia marginata is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae. Sometimes classified in the genus Limax, the species is distinct in its ecology, and its nearly transparent body. It is a medium-sized species, rarely exceeding 12 cm in body length. The body is fairly long and narrow, with a marked keel. The keel looks lighter than the remaining body against the darker innards.

Lehmannia marginata
Lehmannia marginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Limacidae
Genus:	Lehmannia
Species:	L. marginata
Binomial name
Lehmannia marginata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Synonyms
Limax marginatus O. F. Müller, 1774

A small Lehmannia marginata browsing on lichen amid moss patches

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands including:

• Czech Republic
• Netherlands
• Slovakia
• Poland
• Ukraine^[1]
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Norway
• Spain^[2]

Description

This is a species of keeled slug.

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  Drawing of reproductive system of Lehmannia marginata

Ecology

This slug species is found in woodland.

Lehmannia marginata eats lichen, algae and mushrooms, and will only eat other dead slugs if no other food is available.^[3]