Limax maximus: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Limax
Species: Limax maximus
Scientific Name: Limax maximus

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Limax maximus

Limax maximus (literally, "biggest slug"), known by the common names great grey slug and leopard slug, is a species of slug in the family Limacidae, the keeled slugs. It is among the largest keeled slugs, Limax cinereoniger being the largest.

Limax maximus is the type species of the genus Limax. The adult slug measures 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) in length and is generally a light greyish or grey-brown with darker spots and blotches, although the coloration and exact patterning of the body of this slug species is quite variable.

This species has a very unusual and distinctive mating method, where the pair of slugs use a thick thread of mucus to hang suspended in the air from a tree branch or other structure.

Although native to Europe, this species has been accidentally introduced to many other parts of the world, first discovered outside its native range in Philadelphia, USA in 1867.

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Limax maximus in languages:

Bokmål: boakjølsnegl
Chinese: 大蛞蝓
Chinese: 豹紋蛞蝓
Croatian: Veliki balavac
Czech: slimák největší
Danish: Pantersnegl
Danish: Leopardsnegl
Dutch: Grote aardslak
Dutch: Tijgerslak
English: Leopard Slug
English: Great Grey Slug
English: Giant Gardenslug
English: Tiger slug
English: Spotted Garden Slug
English: Giant Garden Slug
Estonian: Suur-seatigu
Finnish: pantterietana
French: Limace léopard
French: Limace tigrée
German: Tigerschnegel
German: Großer Schnegel
German: Große Egelschnecke
German: Tigernacktschnecke
Hungarian: nagy meztelencsiga
Italian: Grande limaccia grigia
Japanese: マダラコウラナメクジ
Latvian: Milzu kailgliemezis
Lithuanian: Didysis šliužas
Modern Greek: Λέοπαρντ Γυμνοσάλιαγκας
Polish: pomrów wielki
Portuguese: Lesma-Leopardo
Russian: Большой придорожный слизень
Russian: Слизень большой
Slovak: slizniak veľký
Swedish: Pantersnigel
Ukrainian: Слимак великий
Ukrainian: Слимак леопардовий
Ukrainian: Слизняк великий

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Limax maximus: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Limax maximus

Limax maximus in languages:

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Limax maximus: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Limax maximus

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