genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
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. There is still ongoing disagreement whether it is more appropriate to consider ''Ambigolimax'' as merely a subgenus of ''
Lehmannia
''Lehmannia'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. The genus is distributed in Europe and North Africa.Ambigolimax valentianus'' (Férussac, 1822) – Valencia slug, threeband garden slug
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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 sequences.
(Previous usage of the name '' Ambigolimax nyctelius'' has now been shown to refer to several species that had been confused: ''A. parvipenis'', ''A. waterstoni'', and '' Lehmannia carpatica''. Furthermore this species name actually refers to a species of ''Letourneuxia'' (family Arionidae).)