Limacus maculatus, the green cellar slug or Irish yellow slug, is a species of slug native to the Caucasus and Black Sea coast.[2] It has also been introduced to a number of northern European countries. In its introduced range the species is often synanthropic. It is most likely to be confused with Limacus flavus, which it closely resembles externally.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Limacidae |
| Genus: | Limacus |
| Species: | L. maculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)
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| Synonyms | |
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Krynickillus maculatus Kaleniczenko, 1851 | |
Limax ecarinatus Boettger, 1881 is the appropriate name if Limacus is considered a subgenus of Limax.[3] The reason is that Nunneley already described a Limax maculatus in 1837; this turned out to be a synonym of Limax maximus, but nevertheless the combination Limax maculatus cannot be re-applied to a species described under the name maculatus at a later date (even though that 1851 description used a different genus, Krynickillus).
Distribution
editThis species is believed to be native in parts of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey, southwestern Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.[2][5] It has now spread to:
- Hungary[9]
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). "Molluscabase. Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851)". www.molluscabase.org.
- ^ a b Wiktor, A.; Norris, A. (1982). "The synonymy of Limax maculatus (Kaleniczenko 1851) with notes on its European distribution". Journal of Conchology. 31: 75–77.
- ^ Welter-Schultes, F.W. (2013). Guidelines for the capture and management of digital zoological names information. Version 1.1. Copenhagen: Global Biodiversity Information Facility. p. 65. ISBN 978-87-92020-44-4.
- ^ Boettger, O. (1881). "Boettger, O. (1881). Sechstes Verzeichniss transkaukasischer, armenischer und nordpersischer Mollusken aus Sendungen der Herren Hans Leder, z. Z. in Kutais und Dr. G. Sievers in St. Petersburg". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 8 (3): 167–261, pl. 7–9.
- ^ a b c d Eta, K.; Hausdorf, B. (2020). "Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko 1851) in Hamburg (Gastropoda: Limacidae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 102: 49–51.
- ^ a b Rowson, B (2014). Slugs of Britain & Ireland : identification, understanding and control. Telford Cardiff: FSC Publications National Museum of Wales. ISBN 978-1-908819-13-0. OCLC 889104870.
- ^ Langeraert, W.; van de Haar, P.G.; Margry, K. (2021). "The green cellar slug Limacus maculatus (Kaleniczenko, 1851) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Limacidae) new for the Netherlands". Basteria. 85 (1): 6–12.
- ^ Čejka, T.; Beran, L.; Korábek, O.; Hlaváč, J.Č.; Horáčková, J.; Coufal, R.; Drvotová, M.; Maňas, M.; Horsáková, V.; Horsák, M. (2020). "Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2015–2019" (PDF). Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 19: 71–106. doi:10.5817/MaB2020-19-71.
- ^ Turóci, Á.; Hutchinson, J.; Schlitt, B.; Reise, H.; Rapala, M.; Páll-Gergely, B. (2023). "Five new introduced terrestrial slugs in Hungary". BioInvasions Records. 12 (3): 711–729. doi:10.3391/bir.2023.12.3.08.
- ^ Ostrovsky, A.M. (2022). "Новые находки синантропных слизней Limacus maculatus и Arion vulgaris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) в Беларуси [New records of synanthropic slugs Limacus maculatus and Arion vulgaris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) in Belarus]". Ruthenica. 32 (2): 93–98. doi:10.35885/ruthenica.2022.32(2).6.
- ^ Balashov, I.; Markova, A. (2021). "Occurrence of an invasive slug, Limacus flavus (Stylommatophora: Limacidae) in the trees of an urban landscape in Kyiv city (Ukraine), with remarks on its colouration". Ruthenica. 31 (3): 111–120. doi:10.35885/ruthenica.2021.31(3).1.
- ^ Sysoev, A.V.; Schileyko, A.A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia, Moscow: Pensoft.
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