Veronicellidae

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Veronicellidae
Leidyula floridanafrom W. G. Binney, 1878
Leidyula floridana
from W. G. Binney, 1878 [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Family: Veronicellidae
Genera

See text.

The Veronicellidae, common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a taxonomic family of tropical and subtropical air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks.

[edit] Description

These mollusks have a posterior located anus, eyes on contractile (not retractile) tentacles, and no lung or pulmonary organ. In these aspects they are anatomically distinct from most other types of terrestrial slugs, which typically belong to the order Stylommatophora, and which have a forward located anus and retractile tentacles.

The closely related members of the family Onchidiidae differ from the Veronicellidae by having a pulmonary sac, or lung. [2] [3] [4]

[edit] Genera within the family Veronicellidae

  • Angustipes
  • Diplosolenodes Thome, 1976
  • Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913
  • Leidyula H. B. Baker, 1925
  • Sarasinula Grimpe and Hoffmann, 1924
  • Vaginulus
  • Veronicella de Blainville, 1817

[edit] References

  1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 59.
  2. ^ http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Pulmonata/Systellommatophora.html Systellommatophora at Palaeos
  3. ^ http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=78765 Integrated Taxonomic Information System: Veronicellidae
  4. ^ http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Veronicellidae.html Univ. Michigan Animal Diversity: Veronicellidae
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