Veronicella tenax, common Cuban name is the steak slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Systellommatophora |
Family: | Veronicellidae |
Genus: | Veronicella |
Species: | V. tenax
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Binomial name | |
Veronicella tenax Baker, 1931[1]
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Distribution
editReferences
edit- ^ Baker H. B. (1931). "Notes on West Indian Veronicellidae". The Nautilus 44(4): 134-138.
- ^ Espinosa et al. (1994): 116.
- ^ a b Maceira D. F. (2003). "Las especies de la familia Veronicellidae (Mollusca, Soleolifera) en Cuba". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(3): 453-461. PDF Archived July 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.