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Ambigolimax Nyctelius
The name ''Ambigolimax nyctelius'' (and similarly ''Lehmannia nyctelia'' and ''Limax nyctelius'') has been used to refer to several species of air-breathing land slugs (terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs) in the family Limacidae. An article published in 2022 revealed this confusion and furthermore showed that the original description applied to a slug species in a different family. The above names are therefore no longer appropriate and care is need to interpret the meaning of earlier usages. The following five species were confused: *''Letourneuxia nyctelia'' (family ''Arionidae'') is the slug originally described. Until 2022 it was mostly known as ''Letourneuxia numidica''; *'' Ambigolimax waterstoni'' is believed native in Algeria but has been reported also from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Elba and some Scottish botanic gardens; *''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' is a widespread invasive species in the British Isles and California, and has been reported also from Spai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules René Bourguignat
Jules René Bourguignat (19 August 1829, Brienne-le-Château, Brienne-Napoléon, Aube – 7 April 1892) was a French malacologist, a scientist who studied mollusks. He served as secretary-general of the ''Société malacologique de France''. He traveled widely, visiting, for example, Lake Tanganyika and North Africa. He reportedly defined 112 new genera and around 2540 new species of mollusks. Taxa Bourguignat named and described many genera and species of mollusks, including: * ''Aspatharia'' Bourguignat, 1885, a genus of freshwater mussel. * ''Bridouxia'' Bourguignat, 1885, a genus of freshwater snail. * ''Lanistes alexandri'' Bourguignat, 1850, a species of freshwater snail. * ''Reymondia'' Bourguignat, 1885, a genus of freshwater snail. * ''Spekia'' Bourguignat, 1879, a genus of freshwater snail. Spekia Bourguignat, 1879 Bibliography ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambigolimax Waterstoni
''Ambigolimax waterstoni'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Limacidae. Taxonomy This is one of the several species formerly confused under the name ''Limax nyctelius'' and later ''Lehmannia nyctelia'' or ''Ambigolimax nyctelius''. In the early 1930s A.R. Waterston wrote his undergraduate thesis describing a species of "''Limax''" from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. These specimens and others were the basis for H.E. Quick in 1946 to name them as ''Limax nyctelius'', a species described from Algeria. By that time M. Connolly had used this name for the same species in South Africa. It was subsequently reported more widely. Only in 2022 was it realised that these further findings were not all of the same species: slugs from the Carpathian Mountains and Bulgaria were of a species now called '' Lehmannia carpatica'' and the recently invasive species in Western Europe and California has been renamed ''Ambigolimax p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambigolimax
''Ambigolimax'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. There is still ongoing disagreement whether it is more appropriate to consider ''Ambigolimax'' as merely a subgenus of ''Lehmannia''; the evidence for splitting them is phylogenetic trees constructed on the basis of DNA sequences. Species The species in the genus are: * '' Ambigolimax valentianus'' (Férussac, 1822) – Valencia slug, threeband garden slug * ''Ambigolimax parvipenis ''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the Limacidae. Taxonomy ''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' was first clearly characterised in 2014, based on specimens from the British ...'' Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022 * '' Ambigolimax waterstoni'' Hutchinson, Reise & Schlitt, 2022 In addition, '' Lehmannia melitensis'' is treated as a species of ''Ambigolimax'' by Hutchinson et al. (2022) based on similarity of DNA sequenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malacolimax
''Malacolimax'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae Limacidae, also known by their common name the keelback slugs, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Limacoidea. Distribution The distr ..., the keelback slugs. Species Species within the genus ''Malacolimax'' include: * '' Malacolimax mrazeki'' (Simroth, 1904) * '' Malacolimax tenellus'' O. F. Müller, 1774, the type species * '' Malacolimax wiktori'' Alonso & Ibáñez, 1989 References Limacidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Limacidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Pollonera
Carlo Pollonera (Alexandria, Egypt, March 27, 1849 – Turin, June 17, 1923) was an Italian painter, particularly of landscapes, and also an important malacologist. Biography Carlo Pollonera's father, Giovanni B. Pollonera, was a lawyer in Alexandria. He died when Carlo was a child, after which his mother returned to Italy (Genoa) and remarried. As a seventeen-year-old, Carlo fought with Garibaldi on the Trentino campaign of 1866. In 1865, the family had moved to Turin, where Pollonera began studying painting with Alberto Maso Gilli. He enrolled at the Accademia Albertina and studied under Gamba and Andrea Gastaldi. Pollonera was a rebellious pupil, wanting to paint exactly what he saw, rather than, for instance, changing a distracting background. This principle not to improve on what he saw remained a hallmark of his painting throughout Pollonera's career. After four years with Gastaldi, in 1873 he switched to study in the private school of Antonio Fontanesi. In January 1875, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Simroth
Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig. Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig."Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth" Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig , catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009. He was a specialist for s. He discovered and described various new species of slugs. Species of animals named in honor of him include: * '' Bulimulus simrothi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches from the far eastern Czech Republic (3%) and Austria (1%) in the northwest through Slovakia (21%), Poland (10%), Ukraine (10%), Romania (50%) to Serbia (5%) in the south. "The Carpathians" European Travel Commission, in The Official Travel Portal of Europe, Retrieved 15 November 2016 The Carpathian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehmannia Carpatica
''Lehmannia carpatica'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Limacidae. Taxonomy When Grossu & Lupu (1963) first noted this species, in Romania, its long penis and lack of penial appendage led it to be confused with ''Ambigolimax waterstoni'', which at that time was incorrectly named as ''Limax nyctelius''; the later renamings as ''Lehmannia nyctelia'' or ''Ambigolimax nyctelius'' remained incorrect. Only in 2022 was the confusion recognised, requiring both ''A. waterstoni'' and ''L. carpatica'' to be formally described as distinct species. The same article described a third species, ''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' that had also been called ''Lehmannia nyctelia'' and confused with the other two; the article further pointed out that the original name ''Limax nyctelius'' referred to a species of ''Letourneuxia''. ''Lehmannia carpatica'' had also been misidentified as ''Mesolimax braunii'' in an article published in 1898. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambigolimax Parvipenis
''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the Limacidae. Taxonomy ''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' was first clearly characterised in 2014, based on specimens from the British Isles. This work showed it to be distinct from the externally similar '' Ambigolimax valentianus'' on the basis both of genital anatomy and of the genetic sequences in the barcoding COI mitochondrial gene. The species later named ''Ambigolimax parvipenis'' was at that time referred to as ''Ambigolimax nyctelius'' (Bourguignat, 1861) because of some similarity in genital anatomy with a slug species from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh that had been named ''Limax nyctelius'' or ''Lehmannia nyctelia'' (since renamed '' Ambigolimax waterstoni''). These two slug species both lack a penial appendage but differ considerably in the length of the penis. In 2022 it was shown that they are indeed different species, that they had both been confu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elba
Elba ( it, isola d'Elba, ; la, Ilva) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino on the Italian mainland, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. It is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park, and the third largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia. It is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea about east of the French island of Corsica. The island is part of the province of Livorno and is divided into seven municipalities, with a total population of about 30,000 inhabitants which increases considerably during the summer. The municipalities are Portoferraio (which is also the island's principal town), Campo nell'Elba, Capoliveri, Marciana, Marciana Marina, Porto Azzurro, and Rio. Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile, from 1814 to 1815. Geography Elba is the largest remaining stretch of land from the ancient tract that once connected the Italian peninsula to Corsica. The northern coast faces the Ligurian Sea, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arionidae
Arionidae, common name the "roundback slugs" or "round back slugs" are a taxonomic family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionoidea. Distribution The distribution of this family of slugs includes Nearctic, Palearctic and Oriental regions."Family summary for Arionidae" , last change 12-06-2009, accessed 4 August 2010. Anatomy Unlike some slugs, European Arionidae have no on the back. The |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
