Letourneuxia is a genus of large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Arionidae |
| Genus: | Letourneuxia Bourguignat, 1866[1] |
| Type species | |
| Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866
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Species
editThis genus is monotypic, containing the single species
- Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)
Letourneuxia numidica Bourguignat, 1866 is now considered a junior synonym of L. nyctelia.[2][3] Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse 1884) is considered either as another synonym of L. nyctelia[4] or as a species in the genus Geomalacus.[5]
References
edit- ^ Bourguignat J. R. 1863-1868. Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu connus. Première centurie (Mars 1863 à Décembre 1868). pp. [1-2], 1-324, Pl. 1-4, V-XLV [= 5-45]. Paris. (Savy). page 202.
- ^ Hutchinson, John M.C.; Reise, Heike; Schlitt, Bettina (30 June 2022). "Will the real Limax nyctelius please step forward: Lehmannia, Ambigolimax, or Malacolimax? No, Letourneuxia!". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 151 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/151/019-041.
- ^ "Letourneuxia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)". Molluscabase. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- ^ Wiktor, A. (1983). "Some data on slugs of Morocco and Algeria with description of a new Deroceras species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Malakologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden. 8: 155–165.
- ^ Castillejo, J. (1996). "Deroceras ponsonbyi (Hesse, 1884) and Geomalacus moreleti (Hesse, 1884) in Gibraltar (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Agriolimacidae, Arionidae)". Revista Real Academia Galega de Ciencias. 15: 23–34.
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