Meghimatium

Meghimatium
Meghimatium fruhstorferi
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:	Philomycidae
Genus:	Meghimatium Hasselt, 1823[1]

Meghimatium is a genus of medium to large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionoidea, the roundback slugs.

Species

Species within the genus Meghimatium include:

• Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008 - from Taiwan^[2]
• Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) - from Taiwan^[2]
• Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901) - from Taiwan^[2]
• Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873) - from Taiwan^[2]
• Meghimatium rugosum (Chen & Gao, 1982) - from Taiwan^[2]
• Meghimatium striatum Hasselt, 1824 - from Java^[2]
• Meghimatium uniforme Laidlaw, 1937 - from North Borneo^[2]

References

1. Hasselt J. C. van (1823). Alg. Konst. Letter-Bode: 232; (1824). Bull. des Sci. Nat. 3: 82.
2. Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). "A New Meghimatium Slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan". Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.

Further reading

• Tsai C. L., Lin H. H. & Wu S. K. (2005). "Comparison of four philomycid slugs (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Philomycidae) of Taiwan". Endem. Spec. Res. 7: 41-49. PDF.