Anadenidae

Anadenidae
Anadenus altivagus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Arionoidea
Family:	Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 [1]
Genera
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Anadenidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionidae. ^[2]

Genera

Two genera are recognised in the Family Anadenidae:

• Anadeninus Simroth, 1912
• Anadenus Heynemann, 1863 - type genus

References

1. Pilsbry H. A. (1948). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), volume II(2). Anadenidae is on pages 665 and 676.
2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-09.

Further reading

• Gupta P. K. & Oli B. P. (1998). "The life cycle and growth of the slug, Anadenus altivagus (Theobald) from Kumaon Himalayan forests, India". Journal of Molluscan Studies64: 250-253. doi : 10.1093/mollus/64.2.250
• Kuzminykh A. A. & Schileyko A. A. (2005). "Slugs of the family Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with descriptions of two new subgenera and three new species". Ruthenica15(2): 109-118.
• Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 15 Oopeltidae, Anadenidae, Arionidae, Philomycidae, Succineidae, Athoracophoridae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2(15): 2049-2210.