Limax luctuosus

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Limax luctuosus
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Juvenile of Limax cf. luctuosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Limacidae
Genus: Limax
Species:
L. luctuosus
Binomial name
Limax luctuosus

Limax luctuosus is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. So far, it has not been adequately investigated and is therefore an unsafe species. [1]

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Taxonomy

The taxon was first described by Alfred Moquin-Tandon in 1855 as a variety of Limax maximus . [2] It could be a form of Limax cinereoniger or an endemic species. [1]

Distribution

Limax luctuosus was described from France, but it should also be present in the western Alps. [3] [4]

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