''Angustipes'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of air-breathing

land slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a sma ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Veronicellidae The Veronicellidae, also known by their common name the leatherleaf slugs, are a family of pulmonate terrestrial slugs. The herbivorous molluscs occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of America, Asia and Africa. They act as interme ...

, the leatherleaf slugs. It is distributed in South America and the northern coast of the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southw ...

. The

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is ''Vaginula difficilis'' Colosi, 1921 (now '' Angustipes difficililis)''.

Species

* '' Angustipes abstumpus'' (Colosi, 1921) * '' Angustipes ameghini'' (Gambetta, 1923) * '' Angustipes carceralis'' Tillier, 1980 * '' Angustipes difficilis'' (Colosi, 1921) * '' Angustipes erinaceus'' (Colosi, 1921) * ''

Angustipes ribeirensis ''Angustipes'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Veronicellidae, the leatherleaf slugs. It is distributed in South America and the northern coast of the Gulf of Mex ...

'' (Thiele, 1927) * '' Angustipes robustus'' (Colosi, 1921) * '' Angustipes rosillus'' (Thiele, 1927)

References

Veronicellidae {{Veronicellidae-stub