Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Pulmonata > Order Stylommatophora > Suborder Sigmurethra > Superfamily Limacoidea > Family Limacidae

Limax Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Limax aeolianus Giusti, 1973
Limax albipes Dumont & Mortillet, 1853
Limax alpinus A. Ferussac, 1821
Limax bielzii Seibert, 1874
Limax brandstetteri Falkner, 2008
Limax canapicianus Pollonera, 1885
Limax cephalonicus Simroth, 1886
Limax ciminensis Pollonera, 1890
Limax cinereoniger Wolf, 1803
Limax conemenosi O. Boettger, 1882
Limax corsicus Moquin-Tandon, 1855
Limax dacampi Menegazzi, 1854
Limax dobrogicus Grossu & Lupu, 1960
Limax erythrus Bourguignat, 1864
Limax gerhardti Niethammer, 1937
Limax giovannellae Falkner & Niederhofer, 2008
Limax graecus Simroth, 1889
Limax granosus Berenguier, 1900
Limax hemmeni Rahle, 1983
Limax ianninii Giusti, 1973
Limax lachensis Berenguier, 1900
Limax maximus Linnaeus, 1758
Limax millipunctatus Pini, 1884
Limax minimus Pollonera, 1896
Limax pironae Pini, 1876
Limax polipunctatus Pollonera, 1888
Limax punctulatus Sordelli, 1870
Limax redii Gerhardt, 1933
Limax sarnensis Heim & Nitz, 2009
Limax squamosus Berenguier, 1900
Limax strobeli Pini, 1876
Limax subalpinus Lessona, 1880
Limax veronensis Lessona & Pollonera, 1882
Limax wohlberedti Simroth, 1900
Limax wolterstorffi Simroth, 1900

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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Citation

Rosenberg, G. (2014). Limax Linnaeus, 1758. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154017

Ruud A. Bank. Limax Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=275234