Ariolimacidae is a

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of air-breathing land

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, 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 ...

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 superfamily

Arionoidea Arionoidea is a taxonomic group, superfamily of air-breathing land slugs, shell-less terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks ( ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Ariolimacidae consists of the two subfamilies: * Ariolimacinae Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 * Zacoleinae Webb, 1959Webb. (14 February) 1959. Gastropodia, 1(3):22. Genera in the family Ariolimacidae include: Ariolimacinae * '' Anadenulus'' Cockerell, 1890 * ''

Ariolimax Banana slugs (''Ariolimax'') are a genus of air-breathing, terrestrial gastropod slugs in the family Ariolimacidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ariolimax Mörch, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' Mörch, 1859 -

banana slug Banana slugs (''Ariolimax'') are a genus of Pulmonata, air-breathing, terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial Gastropoda, gastropod slugs in the family Ariolimacidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ariolimax Mörch, 1859. Accessed through: World ...

- the type genus of the family Ariolimacidae * '' Hesperarion'' Simroth, 1891 * '' Magnipelta'' Pilsbry, 1953 * '' Meadarion'' Pilsbry, 1948 * ''

Prophysaon ''Prophysaon'', common name taildropper slugs, is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ariolimacidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Prophysaon Bland & W.G. Binney ...

'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873 * '' Udosarx'' Webb, 1959 Zacoleinae * '' Zacoleus'' Pilsbry, 1903 - the type genus of the subfamily Zacoleinae ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Aphallarion'' Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896: synonym of ''Ariolimax'' Mörch, 1859 * ''Limacarion'' J.G. Cooper, 1879: synonym of ''Prophysaon'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873 * ''Phenacarion'' Cockerell, 1890: synonym of ''Prophysaon'' Bland & W.G. Binney, 1873

References

* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526. {{Pulmonata-stub