Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Systellommatophora
Superfamilia: Veronicelloidea
Familia: Veronicellidae
Genus: Laevicaulis
Name
Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913
Vernacular names
English: Laevicaulis
Laevicaulis is a taxonomic genus of air-breathing, tropical land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Laevicaulis include:
Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
Laevicaulis giganteus (Godwin-Austen, 1895)
Laevicaulis haroldi (Collinge, 1901) - Purcell's hunter slug
Laevicaulis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)
Laevicaulis somalicus (Colosi, 1927)
Laevicaulis striatus (Simroth, 1896)
Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)
Laevicaulis vosseleri (Simroth, 1913)
Laevicaulis zanzibaricus Forcart, 1953
Species brought into synonymy
Laevicaulis comorensis (P. Fischer, 1883): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
Laevicaulis maillardi (P. Fischer, 1871): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
Laevicaulis saxicolus (Cockerell, 1893): synonym of Laevicaulis natalensis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848) (junior synonym)
References
World Register of Marine Species
Grimpe G. & Hoffmann H. (1924). Diagnosen neuer Athoracophoriden (Gastr., Pulm.). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 58: 171-177
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Forcart, L. (1969). Veronicellid land slugs from the New Hebrides, with description of Semperula solemi, new species. Fieldiana: Zoology, 50 (12): 147-156
page(s): 148; note: reversed priority of Laevicaulis (originally described as subgenus) and Eleutherocaulis (originally described as genus)
External links
Simroth, H. (1913). Über die von Voeltzkow auf Madagascar und in Ostafrika erbeuteten Vaginuliden, nebst verwandtem Material von ganz Afrika. In: Voeltzkow, A. Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903–1905. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Band III. Systematische Arbeiten. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp.129–216
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