Pallifera

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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Philomycidae
Genus: Pallifera
E. S. Morse, 1864
Species

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Pallifera is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae.

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Species

Species include: [1]

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008) [3] (simplified):

  Meghimatium  

  Philomycus  

 Pallifera 

  Megapallifera  

  Arion  

  Deroceras  

Arion and Deroceras were used as outgroup. [3]

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References

  1. Pallifera. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  2. Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.
  3. 1 2 Tsai C.-L. & Wu S.-K. (2008). A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies47(6): 759-766. PDF.