Limax: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Limacidae
- Genus
- Limax
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Limax
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Limax
Limax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk family Limacidae.
The generic name Limax literally means "slug". Snail-eating animals, such as certain snakes) are thus called limaxivorous.
Some species, such as the leopard slug (L. maximus), are beneficial for the garden.
The genus Limax sensu stricto is probably monophyletic.
...Limax in languages:
- Czech
- slimák
- Italian
- Limacce
- Ukrainian
- Слимак
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Limax aeolianus
- Limax albipes
- Limax bielzii
- Limax bivonae
- Limax cinereoniger
- Limax conemenosi
- Limax corsicus
- Limax dacampi
- Limax dobrogicus
- Limax erythrus
- Limax graecus
- Limax hemmeni
- Limax ianninii
- Limax lachensis
- Limax maximus
- Limax millipunctatus
- Limax perosinii
- Limax seticus
- Limax strobeli
- Limax subalpinus
- Limax veronensis
- Limax wohlberedti































































































































































