Meghimatium

Life-forms

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: Stylommatophora
Subordo: Helicina
Infraordo: Arionoidei
Superfamilia: Arionoidea

Familia: Philomycidae
Genus: Meghimatium
Species: M. baoshanense – M. bilineatum – M. burchi – M. doederleini – M. fruhstorferi – M. lucyenensis – M. pictum – M. rugosum – M. striatum – M. uniforme
Name

Meghimatium van Hasselt, 1823: 132

Type species: Meghimatium striatum van Hasselt, 1823 (type by monotypy)
Synonyms

Incilaria W.H. Benson, 1842
Incillaria (misspelling)
Philomycus (Incilaria) W.H. Benson, 1842
Philomycus (Meghimatium) van Hasselt, 1823

References

Van Hasselt, J.C. 1823. Uittreksel uit enn' brief van den Heer J. C. van Hasselt, aan den Heer C. J. Temminck, geschreven uit Tjecande, Residentie Bantam, den 29sten December 1822. Algemeene Konst- en Letter-Bode voor het Jaar 1823 2: 130–133. [Translated 1960 by Alfred into Bulletin of the Singapore National Museum as Extract from a letter from Dr. J . C. van Hasselt to Mr. C. J. Temminck, written from Tjecande, Residency of Bantam, on 29th December,1822] Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Tsai, C.-L.; Lu, C.-C.; Kao, H.-W. 2011: Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the east and southeast Asian Meghimatium slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Philomycidae) and description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2890: 1–19. Preview

Meghimatium is a genus of medium to large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionoidea, the roundback slugs.
Species

Species within the genus Meghimatium include:

Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008 — from Taiwan[2]
Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) — from Taiwan[2]
Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901) — from Taiwan[2]
Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873) — from Taiwan[2]
Meghimatium rugosum (Chen & Gao, 1982) — from Taiwan[2]
Meghimatium striatum Hasselt, 1824 — from Java[2]
Meghimatium uniforme Laidlaw, 1937 — from North Borneo[2]

References

Hasselt J. C. van (1823). Alg. Konst. Letter-Bode: 232; (1824). Bull. des Sci. Nat. 3: 82.

Tsai, C.-L.; Wu, S.-K. (2008). "A new Meghimatium slug (Pulmonata: Philomycidae) from Taiwan" (PDF). Zoological Studies. 47 (6): 759–766.