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Angustipes

Colosi, 1922 [1]

Angustipes is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs. [2] It is distributed in South America and the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. [3] The type species is Vaginula difficilis Colosi, 1921 (now Angustipes difficililis). [4]

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References

  1. (in Italian) Colosi G. (1922). "Contributo alla conoscenza anatomica e sistematica dei vaginulidi Sud-Americani". Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 31: 475-517. page 486.
  2. "Angustipes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. 1 2 "Angustipes Colosi, 1922". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  4. Santin, Rodrigo A.; Miquel, Sergio E. (2015-12-17). "Veronicellidae in Argentina: taxonomy, morphology and distribution (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Systellomatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology. 144 (2): 105–123. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/144/105-123. ISSN   1869-0963.