Rathouisiidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Systellommatophora
- Family
- Rathouisiidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Rathouisiidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rathouisiidae
Rathouisiidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Veronicelloidea, the leatherleaf slugs and their allies.
This family has no subfamilies according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
The scientific name Rathouisiidae is based on the name of the type genus, Rathouisia which in turn was named in honor of the French Jesuit Père Charles Rathouis (1834–1890), who made scientific drawings for Pierre Marie Heude.
...Rathouisiidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 納蛞蝓科 (拉氏蛞蝓科、拉索蛞蝓科)
- English
- Prism Slugs
- Japanese
- ホソアシヒダナメクジ科
- Thai
- วงศ์ ทากกินเนื้อ
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