Vaginulus

Vaginulus
Vaginulus occidentalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Veronicellidae
Genus:	Vaginulus Férussac, 1829 [1]

Vaginulus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.

Species

Species in the genus Vaginulus include:

• Vaginulus buergueri (Simroth, 1914) ^{[2] [3]}
• Vaginulus rodericensis Smith, 1876
• Vaginulus sloanii (Cuvier, 1817)
• Vaginulus taunaisii (Férussac, 1821)

Synonyms:

• Vaginulus occidentalis (Guilding, 1825) is a synonym of Diplosolenodes occidentalis
• Vaginulus sinensis Heude, 1882 is a synonym of Rathouisia leonina Heude, 1882 ^[4]
• Vaginulus stuxbergi Westerlund, 1883 is a synonym of Oncis stuxbergi (Westerlund, 1883)

References

1. Férussac (1829). H.N.g. et p. Moll., Tabl. Limaces.
2. Baker H. B. (1925). "North American Veronicellidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 77: 157-184, pl. 4.
3. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
4. Wu M., Guo J.-Y., Wan F.-H., Qin Q.-L., Wu Q. & Wiktor A. (2006). "A preliminary study of the predatory terrestrial mollusk Rathouisia leonina". The Veliger48: 61-74.