Anadenidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionidae.[2]
| Anadenidae | |
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| Anadenus altivagus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Arionoidea |
| Family: | Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948[1] |
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Genera
editTwo genera are recognised in the Family Anadenidae:
- Anadeninus Simroth, 1912
- Anadenus Heynemann, 1863 - type genus
References
edit- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1948). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), volume II(2). Anadenidae is on pages 665 and 676.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
Further reading
edit- Gupta P. K. & Oli B. P. (1998). "The life cycle and growth of the slug, Anadenus altivagus (Theobald) from Kumaon Himalayan forests, India". Journal of Molluscan Studies 64: 250-253. doi:10.1093/mollus/64.2.250
- Kuzminykh A. A. & Schileyko A. A. (2005). "Slugs of the family Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) with descriptions of two new subgenera and three new species". Ruthenica 15(2): 109-118.
- Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 15 Oopeltidae, Anadenidae, Arionidae, Philomycidae, Succineidae, Athoracophoridae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2(15): 2049-2210.
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