Pallifera

Pallifera is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae.

Species

Species include:

• Pallifera costaricensis (Mörch, 1857)
• Pallifera dorsalis (Binney, 1842) – pale mantleslug
• Pallifera fosteri – Foster mantleslug
• Pallifera hemphilli – black mantleslug
• Pallifera marmorea – marbled mantleslug
• Pallifera megaphallica – woody mantleslug
• Pallifera ohioensis – redfoot mantleslug
• Pallifera pilsbryi – Arizona mantleslug
• Pallifera ragsdalei – whiteface mantleslug
• Pallifera secreta – severed mantleslug
• Pallifera tournescalis – Ouachita mantleslug
• Pallifera varia – variable mantleslug

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Philomycidae by Tsai & Wu (2008) (simplified):

Arion and Deroceras were used as outgroup.

References

External links

• LifeDesks, Terrestrial Slugs Web