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Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Limacoidei
Superfamilia: Limacoidea

Familia: Vitrinidae
Subfamilia: Vitrininae
Genus: Semilimax
Species: S. carinthiacus – S. pyrenaicus – S. semilimax
Name

Semilimax Stabille, 1859

Type species: Vitrina elongata Draparnaud, 1805 (=Semilimax semilimax Férussac, 1802)
Synonyms

Chlamydea Westerlund, 1886
Vitrinopugio von Ihering, 1892

References

Bank, R.A. 2011. Fauna Europaea: Mollusca: Gastropoda. Fauna Europaea version 2.4, [1].
Giusti, F., Fiorentino, V., Benocci, A., & Manganelli, G. 2011. A survey of vitrinid land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Limacoidea). Malacologia 53(2): 279–363.
Stabille, G. 1859. Description de quelques coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée Série II 11: 419–432. BHL [p. 422]

Semilimax is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae.
Species

The genus Semilimax includes the following species:

Semilimax carinthiacus (Westerlund, 1886)
Semilimax kotulae (Westerlund, 1883)
Semilimax pyrenaicus (A. Férussac, 1821)
Semilimax semilimax (A. Férussac, 1802)

References

Stabile J. (1859). "Description de quelques coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues". Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée (2)11: 419-432, Plate 15. Paris.

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