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Veronicella tenax

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Species of gastropod

Veronicella tenax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Veronicellidae
Genus: Veronicella
Species: V. tenax
Binomial name
Veronicella tenax
Baker, 1931
Synonyms
  • Veronicella (Tenacipes) tenax Baker, 1931
  • Vaginula tenax
  • Veronicella tenax
  • Filicaulis (Tenacipes) sp.
  • Filicaulis (Tenacipes) tenax (Baker, 1931)

Veronicella tenax, common Cuban name is the steak slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

Distribution

References

  1. Baker H. B. (1931). "Notes on West Indian Veronicellidae". The Nautilus 44(4): 134-138.
  2. Espinosa et al. (1994): 116.
  3. ^ Maceira D. F. (2003). "Las especies de la familia Veronicellidae (Mollusca, Soleolifera) en Cuba". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(3): 453-461. PDF Archived July 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
Taxon identifiers
Veronicella tenax


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