''Hyalimax'' is a

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of small, air-breathing, land

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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 ...

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s in the

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Succineidae Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails (and 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 ...

, the amber snails. This genus has no external shell, but it has an almost flat internal shell plate. Hyalimax pellucidus

Species

Species in the genus ''Hyalimax'' include Hedley C. 1892
''Art. XVIII.—An Enumeration of the Janellidae''
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, pages 156-162. cited pages 161-162. (old source from 1892 was used, some of these names may be synonyms): * '' Hyalimax andamanicus'' Godwin-Austen, 1882 - from

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. * '' Hyalimax maillardi'' Fischer, 1867 * '' Hyalimax mauritianus'' Rang, 1827 - from

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. * '' Hyalimax perlucidus'' Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 - from Pouce Mountain, Mauritius. * '' Hyalimax pellucidus'' Quoy & Gaimard (''Hyalimax pellucidus'' seems to be misspelled ''Hyalimax perlucidus''.) * '' Hyalimax reinhardi'' Morch, 1872 - from Pulo Panjang and Sambelong,

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. * '' Hyalimax viridis'' Theobald, 1864 - from Arracan.

Description

Tryon (1884) wrote about the genus ''Hyalimax'' (while mentioning ''Hyalimax pellucidus'' as an example) like this: "Animal

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