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Meghimatium
Sign in to saveMeghimatium is a genus of medium to large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionoidea, the roundback slugs.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPhilomycidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Philomycidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, UF, BPBM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan, Indonesia, China, Vietnam
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Philomycidae
- Image
- Meghimatium fruhstorferi.JPG
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- Meghimatium
- taxon name
- Meghimatium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- van Hasselt, 1824
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Meghimatium is a genus of medium to large air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Philomycidae and the superfamily Arionoidea, the roundback slugs.
==Species== Species within the genus Meghimatium include: Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008 — from Taiwan Meghimatium bilineatum (Benson, 1842) — from Taiwan Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Collinge, 1901) — from Taiwan Meghimatium pictum (Stoliczka, 1873) — from Taiwan Meghimatium rugosum (Chen & Gao, 1982) — from Taiwan Meghimatium striatum Hasselt, 1824 — from Java Meghimatium uniforme Laidlaw, 1937 — from North Borneo
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