Meghimatium fruhstorferi

Meghimatium fruhstorferi
Meghimatium fruhstorferi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Arionoidea
Family: Philomycidae
Genus: Meghimatium
Species: M. fruhstorferi
Binomial name
Meghimatium fruhstorferi
(Collinge, 1901)[1]
Synonyms

Meghimatium melachloros Simroth, 1903
Philomycus (Meghimatium) fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901)
Incilaria fruhstorferi

Meghimatium fruhstorferi is a species of medium to large air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionacea, the roundback slugs.

Distribution

Its distribution is Japan and Taiwan. Its Japanese name is ヤマナメクジ[2] and Chinese name is 山蛞蝓.[3]

Subspecies:

References

  1. Collinge W. E. (1901). "Description of some new species of slug collected by Mr. H. Fruhstofer". J. Malacol. 8: 118-121.
  2. (Jaanese) Azuma, M. (1995). Colored illustrations of the land snails of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka. xvi, 343 p, 80 pls. ISBN 9784586300617.
  3. http://shell.sinica.edu.tw/english/shellpic_T.php?science_no=2086 accessed 13 September 2010

Further reading

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