Anadenidae is a
family
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of air-breathing land
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Arionidae.
Genera
Two genera are recognised in the Family Anadenidae:
* ''
Anadeninus''
Simroth, 1912
* ''
Anadenus''
Heynemann, 1863 - type genus
References
Further reading
* Gupta P. K. & Oli B. P. (1998). "The life cycle and growth of the slug, ''Anadenus altivagus'' (Theobald) from Kumaon Himalayan forests, India". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 64: 250-253.
* Kuzminykh A. A. & Schileyko A. A. (2005). "Slugs of the family Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with descriptions of two new subgenera and three new species". ''Ruthenica'' 15(2): 109-118.
* Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 15 Oopeltidae, Anadenidae, Arionidae, Philomycidae, Succineidae, Athoracophoridae". ''Ruthenica'', Supplement 2(15): 2049-2210.
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