Laevicaulis Explained

Laevicaulis is a taxonomic genus of air-breathing, tropical land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Laevicaulis include:

• Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)
• Laevicaulis giganteus (Godwin-Austen, 1895)
• Laevicaulis haroldi (Collinge, 1901) - Purcell's hunter slug
• Laevicaulis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848)
• Laevicaulis somalicus (Colosi, 1927)
• Laevicaulis striatus (Simroth, 1896)
• Laevicaulis stuhlmanni (Simroth, 1895)
• Laevicaulis vosseleri (Simroth, 1913)
• Laevicaulis zanzibaricus Forcart, 1953

Species brought into synonymy:

• Laevicaulis comorensis (P. Fischer, 1883): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
• Laevicaulis maillardi (P. Fischer, 1871): synonym of Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822) (junior synonym)
• Laevicaulis saxicolus (Cockerell, 1893): synonym of Laevicaulis natalensis natalensis (F. Krauss, 1848) (junior synonym)

References

• Grimpe G. & Hoffmann H. (1924). Diagnosen neuer Athoracophoriden (Gastr., Pulm.). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 58: 171-177
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
• Forcart, L. (1969). Veronicellid land slugs from the New Hebrides, with description of Semperula solemi, new species. Fieldiana: Zoology, 50 (12): 147-156

page(s): 148; note: reversed priority of Laevicaulis (originally described as subgenus) and Eleutherocaulis (originally described as genus)

External links

• Simroth, H. (1913). Über die von Voeltzkow auf Madagascar und in Ostafrika erbeuteten Vaginuliden, nebst verwandtem Material von ganz Afrika. In: Voeltzkow, A. Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903–1905. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Band III. Systematische Arbeiten. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp.129–216

Notes and References

1. World Register of Marine Species