Selenochlamys

Last updated

Selenochlamys
Ghost Slug adult.jpg
A live individual of Selenochlamys ysbryda , head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oxychilidae
Genus: Selenochlamys
Boettger, 1883 [1]
Type species
Selenochlamys pallida
Boettger, 1883

Selenochlamys is a genus of predatory air-breathing land slugs, shell-less pulmonate gastropod molluscs. When described it was supposed to be in the family Trigonochlamydidae, but DNA evidence has shown it to be in the Oxychilidae instead. [2]

Contents

Species

Species within the genus Selenochlamys include: [3]

References

  1. ↑ (in German) Boettger O. (1883). "Siebentes Verzeichnis von Mollusken der Kaukasusländer, nach Sendungen des Hrn. Hans Leder, z. Z. in Helenendorf bei Elisabetpol (Transkaukasien)". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft10: 135-198, Taf. 4-7. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. ↑ Neiber, Marco T.; Walther, Frank; Hausdorf, Bernhard (October 2020). "Phylogenetic relationships of ghost slugs (Selenochlamys) and overlooked instances of limacization in Western Palaearctic Limacoidei (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 151 106897. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106897.
  3. ↑ Species in genus Selenochlamys. AnimalBase, accessed 21 April 2009.
  4. ↑ Rowson B. & Symondson O. C. (2008) "Selenochlamys ysbryda sp. nov. from Wales, UK: a Testacella-like slug new to western Europe (Stylommatophora: Trigonochlamydidae)". Journal of Conchology39(5): 537-552. abstract.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.