Leidyula floridana

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Leidyula floridana
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Leidyula floridana from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Veronicelloidea
Family:
Veronicellidae
Genus:
Leidyula
Species:
L. floridana
Binomial name
Leidyula floridana
(Leidy & Binney in Binney, 1851) [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Vaginulus floridanus(Leidy, 1851)
  • Vaginulus floridanus(Binney, 1851)
  • Veronicella floridana(Binney, 1851)
A large Florida leatherleaf slug MG 1004 Florida leatherleaf (Leidyula floridana).jpg
A large Florida leatherleaf slug

Leidyula floridana, common name the Florida leatherleaf, is a species of tropical air-breathing land slug, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae.

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Distribution

Leidyula floridana is native to the Caribbean (Cuba to Jamaica) and southern Florida, but has spread to northern Florida. The slug is also found in Louisiana and Texas. [4] It is also found, as a non-native species, in Mexico, [3] Nicaragua, [5] and Cuba. [3] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 59.
  2. ↑ Binney A. (1851). The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States and the adjacent territories of North America. Volume I. A. A. Gould (ed.). Charles C. Little and James C. Brown, Boston, MA. 366 pp. (198, 251, pl. IV).
  3. 1 2 3 Naranjo-García E., Thomé J. W. & Castillejo J. (2007). "A review of the Veronicellidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Soleolifera). Revisión de los Veronicellidae de México (Gastropoda: Soleolifera)". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 78: 41-50."
  4. ↑ Stange LA, Deisler JE, Fasulo TR. 2009. Slugs of Florida Archived 2009-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Featured Creatures. Last accessed 2009-05-01
  5. ↑ (in Spanish) Pérez A. M., Sotelo M., Arana I. & López A. (2008). "Diversidad de moluscos gasterópodos terrestres en la región del Pacífico de Nicaragua y sus preferencias de hábitat". Rev. Biol. Trop. 56(1): 317-332,. PDF
  6. ↑ Maceira D. F. (2003). "Las especies de la familia Veronicellidae (Mollusca, Soleolifera) en Cuba". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(3): 453-461. PDF Archived 2007-07-28 at the Wayback Machine .

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