Limacinae is a taxonomic subfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Limacidae. The only other subfamily in this family is the Eumilacinae.
Genera
Currently recognised genera in the Limacinae are:
- Ambigolimax Pollonera, 1887; formerly considered a subgenus of Lehmannia
- Bielzia Clessin, 1887 â with the only species Bielzia coerulans M. Bielz, 1851. Some authors, for example Russian malacologists, have classified Bielzia within its own family Bielzidae (= Limacopsidae) or subfamily Bielzinae, but a molecular phylogeny has subsequently placed it within Limacinae.
- Caspilimax P. Hesse, 1926
- Gigantomilax O. Boettger, 1883
- Lehmannia Heynemann, 1863; formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limacus Lehmann, 1864; sometimes considered a subgenus of Limax
- Limax Linnaeus, 1758 â type genus of Limacidae; c. half the recognised species in the family
- Malacolimax Malm, 1868; formerly considered a subgenus of Limax
- Svanetia Hesse, 1926
- Turcomilax Simroth, 1902
- Weltersia Giusti et al. 2021 â with the only species W. obscura Giusti et al. 2021
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