| Vaginulus | |
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| Vaginulus occidentalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Veronicelloidea |
| Family: | Veronicellidae |
| Genus: | Vaginulus Férussac, 1829 |
Vaginulus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
Species
Species in the genus Vaginulus include:
- Vaginulus buergueri (Simroth, 1914)
- Vaginulus rodericensis Smith, 1876
- Vaginulus sloanii (Cuvier, 1817)
- Vaginulus taunaisii (Férussac, 1821)
Synonyms:
- Vaginulus occidentalis (Guilding, 1825) is a synonym of Diplosolenodes occidentalis
- Vaginulus sinensis Heude, 1882 is a synonym of Rathouisia leonina Heude, 1882
- Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883 is a synonym of Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)
References
- Férussac (1829). H.N.g. et p. Moll., Tabl. Limaces.
- Baker H. B. (1925). "North American Veronicellidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 77: 157-184, pl. 4.
- Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
- Wu M., Guo J.-Y., Wan F.-H., Qin Q.-L., Wu Q. & Wiktor A. (2006). "A preliminary study of the predatory terrestrial mollusk Rathouisia leonina". The Veliger 48: 61-74.
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