Anadenidae Explained

Anadenidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Arionidae.^[1]

Genera

Two genera are recognised in the Family Anadenidae:

• Anadeninus Simroth, 1912
• Anadenus Heynemann, 1863 - type genus

Further reading

• 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.
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Anadenidae Pilsbry, 1948 . 2022-10-09 . www.marinespecies.org.