''Hyalimax'' is a

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of small, 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

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 ...

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s in the

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Succineidae Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and slugs), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Succineidae Beck, 1837. Accessed thr ...

, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate. Hyalimax pellucidus

Species

Species in the genus ''Hyalimax'' include Hedley C. 1892
''Art. XVIII.—An Enumeration of the Janellidae''
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, pages 156-162. cited pages 161-162. (old source from 1892 was used, some of these names may be synonyms): * '' Hyalimax andamanicus'' Godwin-Austen, 1882 - from

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Hyalimax maillardi ''Hyalimax maillardi'' is a species of air-breathing succineid land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. Distribution This species is endemic to Réunion Réunion (; french: La Réun ...

'' Fischer, 1867 * '' Hyalimax mauritianus'' Rang, 1827 - from

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Hyalimax perlucidus ''Hyalimax'' is a genus of small, air-breathing, land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate. Species Speci ...

'' Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 - from Pouce Mountain, Mauritius. * '' Hyalimax pellucidus'' Quoy & Gaimard (''Hyalimax pellucidus'' seems to be misspelled ''Hyalimax perlucidus''.) * '' Hyalimax reinhardi'' Morch, 1872 - from Pulo Panjang and Sambelong,

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. * '' Hyalimax viridis'' Theobald, 1864 - from Arracan.

Description

Tryon (1884) wrote about the genus ''Hyalimax'' (while mentioning ''Hyalimax pellucidus'' as an example) like this: "Animal

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