Vaginulus

Vaginulus
	Vaginulus occidentalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Systellommatophora
Family:	Veronicellidae
Genus:	Vaginulus ; Férussac, 1829

Last updated July 19, 2025

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

↑ Férussac (1829). H.N.g. et p. Moll., Tabl. Limaces.
↑ Baker H. B. (1925). "North American Veronicellidae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 77: 157-184, pl. 4.
↑ 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 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
↑ 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.

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[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.

[Robinson_2009-3] 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 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine

[Wu_2006-4] 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.

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