Limacus

Limacus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae, the short-keeled slugs.^[2]

Limacus
Limacus maculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Limacidae
Genus:	Limacus Lehmann, 1864[1]
Type species
Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864
Synonyms
Limax (Limacus) Lehmann, 1864 Plepticolimax Malm, 1868 Simrothia Clessin, 1884

Species

Species within this subgenus include:

• † Limacus crassitesta (Reuss, 1868)
• Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species;^[3] synonyms = Limax flavus Linnaeus, 1758
• Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851); synonyms = Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881, Limax pseudoflavus Evans, 1978, Limax grossui Lupu, 1970

Species brought into synonymy

• Limacus breckworthianus Lehmann, 1864: synonym of Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)