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:

References

  1. Hasselt J. C. van (1823). Alg. Konst. Letter-Bode: 232; (1824). Bull. des Sci. Nat. 3: 82.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). "A New Meghimatium Slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan". Zoological Studies 47(6): 759-766. PDF.

Further reading

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