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Ambigolimax

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Ambigolimax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderStylommatophora
  5. FamilyLimacidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
10
Family
Limacidae
Collections
CAS, LACM, FMNH, NHMUK, SBMNH
Recorded in
United States, United Kingdom

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Ambigolimax is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Limacidae, the keelback slugs.

There has been disagreement whether Ambigolimax should be considered a subgenus of Lehmannia; the evidence for splitting them is phylogenetic trees constructed on the basis of DNA sequences.

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