Letourneuxia

Letourneuxia is a genus of large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Letourneuxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Arionoidea
Family:
Arionidae
Genus:
Letourneuxia

Species

This genus contains the following species:

  • Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse 1884) - from Iberia.
  • Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 - type species of the genus Letourneuxia. From Algeria.

References
  1. Bourguignat J. R. 1863-1868. Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu connus. Première centurie (Mars 1863 à Décembre 1868). pp. [1-2], 1-324, Pl. 1-4, V-XLV [= 5-45]. Paris. (Savy). page 202.

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