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Laevicaulis

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Laevicaulis
Laevicaulis alte
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Veronicellidae
Genus: Laevicaulis
Simroth, 1913
Type species
Vaginula comorensis P. Fischer, 1883
Species

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Synonyms
  • Annulicaulis Simroth, 1913 (junior synonym)
  • Eleutherocaulis Simroth, 1913 (objective synonym)
  • Filicaulis (Eleutherocaulis) Simroth, 1913
  • Meisenheimeria Grimpe & Hoffmann, 1924 (junior synonym)
  • Vaginula (Annulicaulis) Simroth, 1913 (junior synonym)
  • Vaginula (Eleutherocaulis) Simroth, 1913
  • Vaginula (Laevicaulis) Simroth, 1913

Laevicaulis is a taxonomic genus of air-breathing, tropical land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Laevicaulis include:

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

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  1. ^ 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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