Lehmannia islandica

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Lehmannia islandica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Lehmannia
Species:
L. islandica
Binomial name
Lehmannia islandica
(Forcart, 1966) [2]

Lehmannia islandica is a species of air-breathing land slug, a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae. It is endemic to Iceland and listed as "Data Deficient" in the IUCN red list due to a lack of detailed distribution data and overlap with the similar species Lehmannia marginata . [1]

Description

The species is occasionally considered a synonym of Lehmannia marginata but is smaller and exhibits a different penis structure being "thickened in its distal section, with a long and pointed flagellum". [3] Like other limacids, these slugs are slim with a pointed tail, and the pneumostome lies is the posterior half of the mantle. The length is reportedly 20 mm.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kappes, H. (2017). "Lehmannia islandica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T171380A1325326. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T171380A1325326.en . Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  2. Forcart, L. 1966. Alpine und nordische Arten der Gattung Lehmannia Heynemann (Limacidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 95: 225-236.
  3. Animal Base: Species summary for Lehmannia islandica <http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4001>. Cited 16 January 2024